SHRIEK in a Sentence
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126 example sentences for SHRIEK, such as:
1. The ship whistle shrieked to leave.
2. She started up, with a faint shriek.
3. He suddenly let out a piercing shriek.
4. The audience was shrieking with laughter.
5. A wild shriek came pealing down the stairway.
2. She started up, with a faint shriek.
3. He suddenly let out a piercing shriek.
4. The audience was shrieking with laughter.
5. A wild shriek came pealing down the stairway.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SHRIEK
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shriek
n. sharp piercing cry
n. a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry
Classic Sentence: (114 in 8 pages)
1 Mammy gave a little shriek and retreated and from a distance of a yard, modestly elevated her dress a few inches and showed the ruffle of a red taffeta petticoat.
2 Now the other side presented itself to Lily, the volcanic nether side of the surface over which conjecture and innuendo glide so lightly till the first fissure turns their whisper to a shriek.
3 He glanced at the dirty and unpropitious corner on which they stood, with the shriek of the "elevated" and the tumult of trams and waggons contending hideously in their ears.
4 And perhaps, at mid-day, in the fairest weather, with one half-throttled shriek you drop through that transparent air into the summer sea, no more to rise for ever.
5 Passing through the doorway the door smote him full, and the shriek which followed brought the dancing to a halt.
6 At the same instant the car was assailed by a most terrifying shriek; the visitors started in alarm, the women turned pale and shrank back.
7 Tis the horrid shriek that a horse will give in his agony; oftener drawn from him in pain, though sometimes in terror.
8 A loud shriek from the younger of the sisters, and the form of the other standing upright before him, in bewildered horror, was the unexpected answer he received.
9 A single, wild, despairing shriek rose from the cavern, and all was hushed again as the grave.
10 The youth gave a shriek as he confronted the thing.
11 In his endeavor there was a dreadful earnestness, as if he conceived that one great shriek would make him well.
12 A wild shriek came pealing down the stairway.
13 She started up, with a faint shriek.
14 The shriek had perhaps sounded with a far greater power, to his own startled ears, than it actually possessed.
15 This done, he went away, muttering, and uttered the cry of his trade next door, in a vindictive shriek.
Example Sentence:
1 She heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass.
2 She heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass, from which she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber frame, or something of the sort.
3 She heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass, from which she concluded that it had fallen into a cucumber-frame, or something of the sort.
4 Though Rudy claimed his wife was off visiting friends, his shriek of horror when she walked into the room was tantamount to a confession that he believed she was dead.
5 And the sneeze of the baby, the shriek of the Gryphon, and all the other queer noises, would change to the confused clamour of the busy farm yard.
6 She heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass, from which she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber-frame, or something of the sort.
7 There was shriek of laughter from the direction of Sarah's room.
8 He suddenly let out a piercing shriek.
9 The steam pipes rattled suddenly, and Franklin uttered a shriek and jumped with fright.
10 The ship whistle shrieked to leave.
11 The audience was shrieking with laughter.
12 They were dragged from their homes, shrieking and weeping.