What's the difference between bawl and screech?

Bawl


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To cry out with a loud, full sound; to cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; to shout; to vociferate.
  • (v. i.) To cry loudly, as a child from pain or vexation.
  • (v. t.) To proclaim with a loud voice, or by outcry, as a hawker or town-crier does.
  • (n.) A loud, prolonged cry; an outcry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All that shouting and bawling from two of News Corporation's most senior executives?
  • (2) "Man, I bawl like a baby every time I listen to this song," writes one YouTube commenter of the track Walk In The Park.
  • (3) !” bawled at me when, as a new cabbie, I had the temerity to ask one of my betters to repeat himself.
  • (4) "I have been watching the the USMNT for the better part of 20 years and it is always the same, in any big game where they need a result or where they are the favorites they play with both hands placed firmly around their necks," bawls Brian Goldych.
  • (5) The sensitive, rawer moments where fictional Julie’s life intersects with Grayson’s are inevitable given the honesty of his work, but what’s most impressive are when the details mirror the real-life Julies, as more than one bawls her mascaraed eyes out with familiarity when the group step inside.
  • (6) Firstly, Parker lost possession after going down in midfield and, as he bawled for a free-kick, Adnan Januzaj scampered away with the ball before passing to Van Persie, who, again with no Fulham defenders in attendance, smashed into the net from 15 yards out.
  • (7) As well as stopping the proceedings at regular intervals to tell MPs to calm down, he is now considering naming individual MPs who bawl and barrack during PMQs, hoping that being named and shamed by their local media will provide a useful disincentive.
  • (8) But through the bawling, a few useful things were got on the record.
  • (9) Cause he's also done that in the past," bawls Piers Atkinson.
  • (10) Yvette Cooper is the only candidate who looks like a prime minister | Richard Leese Read more In stark terms, he says Labour’s consideration of Corbyn must stop if it wants to be a serious party of power rather than just a “party of protest that marches, campaigns, backs strikes, calls for ministerial resignations, more money for every cause going, shouts and bawls and fingerjabs”.
  • (11) "The close proximity is highly relevant when you come to consider how openly these Iraqis were abused and how the shouting, bawling, screaming from that facility must have been heard by numerous soldiers and officers in that camp and yet no one appears to have raised it as a concern."
  • (12) This year public sector workers are turning up there to bawl him out over pensions.
  • (13) It’s all breastfeeding and dirty bums and bawling for hours and hours.
  • (14) "It doesn't greatly advance the feminist cause to allow MPs to cart their bawling babies through the lobby," she said.
  • (15) I rang my friend, my American editor and bawled and bawled, and she told me to write it all down, and I wrote for two hours.
  • (16) Might it pander to self-absorption, and encourage people to behave like bawling narcissists?
  • (17) And when I'd turn to them and see they were grinning from ear-to-ear, or they were bawling their eyes out, I knew we had something special."
  • (18) Standing to be mounted, bawling, and attempting to mount were the three criteria used for determining the presence of estrus.
  • (19) I think that deserves a round of applause.” A man called Michael says he doesn’t need a microphone and bawls his question in broadest Lancashire.
  • (20) Another fan further down the row bawled his eyes out as he bellowed to the heavens.

Screech


Definition:

  • (v.) To utter a harsh, shrill cry; to make a sharp outcry, as in terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek.
  • (n.) A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As I write this in a coffee shop, there's a woman sharing the table, screeching down her phone in Polish.
  • (2) As he breathed, he made screeching sounds and low-pitched gargles.
  • (3) They can pitch , both in the starting rotation, which has been special over the last two seasons, and in the bullpen, one which will have to deal with the unfortunate and freakish loss of Aroldis Chapman, who broke facial bones after being hit by a screeching come backer.
  • (4) The humeroscapular bone is present in the great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), the screech owl (Otus asio), the barred owl (Strix varia), the red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicencis), the Cooper's hawk (Accipiter cooperii), and the sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus).
  • (5) I’m sure there will be a few people that will be a misty-eyed about it leaving service, in the same way as Concorde: they are one plane that you can always recognise.” But, Holland-Kaye says, the difference in noise between the 747 and a new plane such as the A350, which comes into service this year, is stark: “It’s far quieter – less of a screeching noise and that’s really welcome for local communities.
  • (6) It is Greece's summer ritual: the arrival of the island ferry, funnels billowing, horns blaring, gangplanks screeching as wide-eyed tourists prepare to disembark.
  • (7) The rage in Encinia’s voice, both when his voice is screeching, “Turn around!” at Bland, and while he’s quietly justifying later why he had to arrest her even though “she never swung at me”, is palpable.
  • (8) The spectacle of old tribalist Gordon Brown in a screeching U-turn on proportional representation would look cynical after he, together with Jack Straw and John Prescott , prevented Tony Blair carrying out Roy Jenkins's PR plan.
  • (9) I had also taken that day, on my landline, no fewer than seven cold calls, each one leaving me shivering with resentment at its screeching greedy randomness.
  • (10) The Fenway crowd gets loud, trying to wish a strikeout but Cabrera hits a screeching liner for a base hit.
  • (11) Back in 1982, Hollande's socialist predecessor François Mitterand performed a screeching U-turn when he replaced Keynesianism in a country with a strong franc policy.
  • (12) The figure in the scream covers its ears against that sound even as it opens its mouth wide to add to the world's screech.
  • (13) The screechingly intolerant campaign of hostility directed against him by metropolitan critics has done its job.
  • (14) A similar disease was also produced with this virus in the great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), screech owl (Otus asio), and ring-necked turtle dove (Streptopelia risoria).
  • (15) My day starts at 6am when I am rudely wakened by screech my alarm clock.
  • (16) Zabavnik launches a shot straight back in; it screeches over the bar.
  • (17) Angus Robertson, the SNP’s leader at Westminster, said: “We once had a prime minister who said, ‘The lady’s not for turning’ … My goodness.” He went on to welcome what he described as May’s “screeching, embarrassing U-turn on national insurance contributions”.
  • (18) But for now, they and all those like them leave the impression of a feminist version of Monty Python's splinter groups – the Judean People's Front screeching "Splitters!"
  • (19) The three-hour display of some of the men and materiel of Pakistan’s lavishly resourced military included representatives of all three services, fly pasts by screeching fighter jets and processions of missile launchers and tanks.
  • (20) Barcelona broke away from deep, Lionel Messi found Alexis and his curling pass reached Jordi Alba screeching up the left, on one last run.