Verb (used without object) : to shriek with pain. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to shriek defiance. From Dictionary.com.
Population and climate change are well worth watching but the excitable shrieking is not helpful. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-30] Reference
Sure, he needs to play catch-up with his new party-mates in shrieking about socialism and the destruction of the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » The Weirdness of Parker Griffith] Reference
The visual to make you gasp with awe and wonder and run shrieking from the room, print to make you sit down and think. From Wordnik.com. [MIND MELD: Which Medium is Driving Science Fiction...Books or Film/TV?] Reference
Not afraid as in shrieking like a B-grade horror flick victim, but concerned enough to want to fight against those things. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Snow: ‘I Don’t Think It’s Ever Been the Goal of the Administration to Expand Executive Authority’] Reference
He fell dead, and the goblin soldiers fled before the sword shrieking into the darkness. From Wordnik.com. [The Hobbit]
Perhaps that’s why the “old feminists” are engaging in shrieking instead of discussion. From Wordnik.com. [ProWomanProLife » Not easy but always right] Reference
I created this picture with the idea of shrieking Anomalocaris by simply showing it in its environments. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Time Capsule: The Anomalocaridid Gallery] Reference
He let the Chereionite drive him backward down the length of the hall, leap by leap, whirling around with sword shrieking in hand. From Wordnik.com. [Agent Of The Terran Empire]
The opposition, you say, is "bordering on the hysterical" or is said to be "shrieking". From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
shrieking rose from all dark places at the same instant, just the same kind of shrieking that is now raised against the Pre-Raphaelites. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
Little kids, shrieking with joy, splashed in the pool. From Wordnik.com. [Humbled Haggard Climbs Back in Pulpit] Reference
I was in my bedroom when I first heard the shrieking downstairs. From Wordnik.com. [Flamingos] Reference
The cat was on fire, shrieking, or maybe that was the tea kettle. From Wordnik.com. [Feeeeeeeeuck!] Reference
I remember the terrible shrieking, the wailing of the inconsolable. From Wordnik.com. [Jeanne's Song, 2010] Reference
This was much better, she felt, than shrieking and baring her teeth. From Wordnik.com. [The Monkeys and the Gun] Reference
About that time the wind was howling wildly, -- it came shrieking across the square. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
He rose twice, and sank beneath the waters, shrieking violently; it was Laubardemont. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The train stopped with a jerk, there was a shrieking of whistles, and then loud shouts. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West] Reference
But gradually McDiarmid turns into a barking autocrat shrieking "I want rules and order.". From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of Homburg] Reference
As he prepared to strike the shrieking victim one more time, Keegan yelled, “Don't!”. From Wordnik.com. [The Bludgeoning of a Burgeoning Young Artist] Reference
And as he said that there sounded, as if from the woods just ahead of them, a loud shrieking sound. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West] Reference
I heard the unintended teen-pregnancy siren shrieking, so I set up a job shadow with a local pediatrician. From Wordnik.com. [I Got It: Mentoring Isn't For The Mentor] Reference
I let the best man have twelve while Phyllis stood there shrieking, her hands over her ears. From Wordnik.com. [Nuptial Indemnity] Reference
The zoo pathway was lined with trees full of birds - squawking, cackling, whistling, shrieking, chirping birds. From Wordnik.com. [Avian Flu Excites the Oversensitive] Reference
Instead I looked at the little girl, the delightful little Ivy-girl, shrieking now in raspy, intermittent hiccups. From Wordnik.com. [My Date With Satan] Reference
As she grew, she was pleasantly silent, not like the Arab kids shrieking and shouting in the streets below. From Wordnik.com. [Apple] Reference
When they turn to face you, they reveal visages of baboons, neon pink and protruding, their mouths agape, fanged and shrieking. From Wordnik.com. [Everyday Zoology] Reference
And when I continued to unpack in the face of his barrage he combined attacks, twisting my cheek in a claw grip while shrieking. From Wordnik.com. [Brian Gresko: When Baby Starts Testing Limits, Daddy Tries Discipline] Reference
Sam throws himself on the floor, shrieking, he rubs his cheeks on the grass and I lie down next to him, looking up at her window, waiting. From Wordnik.com. [Superfoods] Reference
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