The screech from the speeding car sent walkers running.    From LearnThat.org. 

Hans catches the word screech and takes it as his cue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed] Reference

Becoming just as predictable as her screech is the director's cutaway to reveal Magnus 'kicks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

Julie, 44, recalls, 'I remember he was making an awful, high-pitched screech, which is one of the signs of meningitis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

The old man enquired why I seemed so much terrified, and my brothers told him that I would persist in calling a screech-owl, a catamount.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of Duty, and Other Stories] Reference

Another kind of screech owl (strix) has its name from its strident (stridet) call.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference

Why is it so much more satisfying to "screech" while you are stretching?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

She might well "screech" when she heard that it came partly from her lover.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Room with a View] Reference

Dick's old rags, she turned round sudden with a kind of screech, and ran out into the brush.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Trail and Town] Reference

He is known as a screech trumpeter.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Seery: Maynard Ferguson Is Dead] Reference

"Well, it was a kind of screech, sir, and then I 'eard somebody drivin' very 'ard down the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rodney Stone] Reference

He awakened around 3 a.m. to the screech of sirens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arcadia, Wisconsin Flooding Forces Downtown Evacuations] Reference

From one side, he heard a screech of grating metal.    From Wordnik.com.  [This World Must Die!] Reference

She was unable to slam her car door and screech away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intangible Vectors of Influence (from "Emergency: Three Romances")] Reference

When he finally halted, sharply, with a screech, she was panting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just Kidding] Reference

The quavering cry of a screech-owl came across the gulch to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference

The screech of the buoy, recurring regularly, set their ears ringing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

The saw must have struck a hard knot in a log and it let out a screech.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West] Reference

Brown has a despairing sound (and he can screech with the best of them).    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Jazz Back?] Reference

The TV's screech next door will partner with the manic laughter of gulls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Slender Scent] Reference

But the bird eluded him and scaled out of the door with a triumphant screech.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

The whistle gave a screech of farewell as they tumbled stiffly into the boat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

Back on the floor, shredder hum meditation was broken by packing tape screech.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Is Without Flaws] Reference

(Soundbite of violin music and screech) Mr. BENNY: (As Himself) It's an old violin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Screening The 'Homefront': War Musicals On DVD] Reference

He sprang back to the rude doorway and gave the usual signal -- the screech-owl's cry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference

It was winter then and would be several months until the screech-owl cried in the ivy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Popular Tales] Reference

Nobody is eager to have her back, since she is very homely and sings all day in a screech.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stories Never Stop] Reference

 Just then she heard them on the stairs, their voices, the screech of Lilla's screen door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beautiful Are the Feet: Part Two] Reference

The brakes 'screech drowned the whispers and laughter until he could no longer hear either.    From Wordnik.com.  [LYES] Reference

Our lives screech and jangle out of tune; Hootie offers us cushy riffs and hunky-dory harmonies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Hootie] Reference

An 'dat li'l black Mose so skeered he jes fall down on e' old log whut dar an 'screech an' moan!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

He scarcely heard the wavering cry of a screech-owl that followed hard upon the remembered notes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference

Perhaps the platform would screech to a halt for a moment outside her bedroom window each morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [To-die-for] Reference

When splashed into the water, the wave struck Reya, and made her screech like the cat that she was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arcana Magi - c.23: Peaceful Time, Obsessive Motives] Reference