One knoll was red with foxes, one was gray with rats; one was covered with black ravens who shrieked continually, one with larks who simply couldn't keep still, but kept on throwing themselves in the air and singing for very joy.
The boy sat upon the goose-back--backward--and shrieked and called to the foxes.
Then there came a new flock, who shrieked like the others, and the young gander answered: "Wait a minute!
It won't last until the summer's end," shrieked the boy.
But soon, another one shrieked in the same way as the first one, and then a third.
He blew so false that the feathers raised themselves on the little music-masters and they shrieked and fluttered in their despair.
But a worse fate could hardly have happened to the goosey-gander, and he shrieked and moaned with all his might.
They were in holiday humour; shrieked and made such a racket that no one who had ears could help hearing them.
None of them shrieked or said a funny thing, and this made everything seem peculiarly unreal.
This feat he performed seven times, while the boy shriekedand the geese shouted: "What are you trying to do, Herr Ermenrich?
He shrieked for help, as loudly as he could, but no one came.
The women shrieked to their lovers to part the combatants, but in vain.
Raphael watched him with a quaint thoughtful smile, while Miriam shrieked aloud at the destruction of the precious trumpery.
He stood in the pen and shrieked with laughter while the hired men went rolling, one after the other, upon the ground, or were bruised against the fence by the rush of the burly swine.
A kingbird chattered and shrieked overhead, the grasshoppers buzzed in the grasses, strange insects with ventriloquistic voices sang all about her--she could not tell where.
And ever the mocking laughter rang in his ears, and ever the demons shrieked to him on the howling wind: "Kill him!
And now upon the rushing wind were voices, demon voices thatshrieked and howled at him, filling the whirling blackness with their vicious clamor.
The trunk was locked, our aggressors could not open it, but they tried to smash it in the struggle, a stroke of malignity at which we shrieked with rage.
He shrieked aloud; the flask dropped from his hand and broke in pieces.
So it was useless to look upon their presence as any safeguard; indeed one of them speedily detected a fancied likeness to Burgess in one of the poor swaggers, and shrieked every time she saw him.
I more than suspect I shrieked too, partly at the difficulty of keeping both Kitty and Helen in any sort of order, and partly at my own insecurity.
For God's sake hurry, this is not a funeral," he almost shrieked to the driver.
They passed a little village where the round-eyed niños shriekedand called at sight of them.
When the police burst open the door they shrieked and ran here and there like gayly plumed birds that had been disturbed in a tropical grove.
No one was hit that I could see, and the pirates shouted and shrieked in return as they began to scramble up the sides.
I could almost have shrieked out with horror, but the so doing, it occurred to me, would betray me.
The wind howled, the waters roared, and the poor wretches below cried out and shrieked in concert.
He shrieked for help to his wife, who came running; and luckily brought her rope with her.
Mamma was her father's favourite, and he taught her to despise grandmamma because she couldn't hunt, and shrieked if she saw things killed.
They tumbled up against the trees continually, and shook showers of autumn leaves down upon themselves; and then, tiring of the game, they began to pelt each other with the leaves, and laughed and shrieked still louder.
Bernadine thought it was a game and smiled at first, but finally she ceased to recognise her sister and shrieked aloud in terror.
When the puma shriekedand howled, I shrieked and howled, too.
Strange sea birds shrieked their dismal cries, while dull leaden skies added to the gloom.
The hissing rush of projectiles, as they struck the water and exploded by impact, orshrieked in ricochet overhead.
But when the Idolaters beheld the standards Mohammedan and thereon the profession of Faith Islamitan, proclaiming the Unity, they shrieked "Woe!
She looked at him and made certain it was he and shrieked rather than said, "Yes, O my beloved!
When she heard that, she shrieked aloud and wept and said, "Did I not tell thee that thou hast slain her?
And as he ceased his verses, he shrieked three shrieks and fell senseless to the ground and the Fireman rose and covered him.
He answered, "Yes;" and she shrieked out and wept right grievously and ceased not weeping thus till she made Afridun and all who were present weep with her.
Still shrieked the shells overhead, and yet roared the guns to front and rear--a pandemonium of sight and sound reserved from the foundation of the world for the valley of Gettysburg.
The pattering of bullets amongst the leaves was distinct; shells shrieked over us; we lay down in line.
The last man of the company had hardly appeared: suddenly I heard a cannon roar, apparently from a Federal battery almost directly in my rear, and at the instant a shell had shrieked far above my head.
Then Siegfried rushed quickly upon the doughty little fellow, and seized him by his long gray beard, and threw him so roughly upon the ground, that Alberich shriekedwith pain.
Night came, and thick darkness settled around; and all the demons of the forest came forth, and clamored and chattered, and shrieked and howled.
Around them rolled the mists and the wind shrieked through the stays of the aeroplane and shook the structure like a dog worrying a bone.
Washington White shrieked aloud, fell upon his knees, and it took but little to drag the boys and Andy Sudds with him.
The wind shrieked in many voices, as though a troop of goblins raced through the air, or rode the strangely formed and hurrying clouds.
Rawson, a lean lad who liked to twist the arms of very little boys till they shriekedfor mercy.
Perhaps his manner was not convincing, for the boys shrieked with laughter over his description.
The pain of my burns was simply fearful, and I could have shrieked with agony, but somehow, except for a few moans, I kept quiet.
My, but it'll be nice to go to your funeral," shrieked Mary.
They passed Mrs. Alec Davis, who shrieked in horror, and they passed Miss Rosemary West who laughed and sighed.
It whistled and shrieked in minor keys, dying away at brief intervals to come again with a rush and roar.
She almost shrieked as he took up the "Social Jottings.
Flopsie shrieked with laughter till she had a "stitch in her side," and was compelled to restrain her mirth.
She swept round the bends; an impure breeze shrieked a welcome between her stripped spars; and the land, closing in, stepped between the ship and the sea.
I tried to steal a kiss; she shrieked so loud that the neighbors came to their windows.
If, instead of kissing her so gently, I had been more audacious, would she have shrieked louder?
I lighted it, without warning my fair; she shrieked when she saw the flame, and I did the same when I found that I was tete-a-tete with a beanpole.
I shrieked as I fell; but the miserable villain knew well enough that no one would come to my rescue.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shrieked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
