(v. i.) To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.
(v. t.) To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.
(n.) A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the bedeviled foray also works as a potent allegory on the slow, vice-like workings of conscience, as guilt hunts down the protagonists with the shrieking remorselessness of Greek furies.
(2) At the place where adorable meets obnoxious and the purr becomes a shriek, Leslie Mann is waiting to unload a howitzer of funny in your face.
(3) There is no doubt she is still traumatised, and her voice rises to a shriek as she describes it.
(4) Dozens of cleaners gathered outside the ministry as the officials drove up, shrieking in high-pitched voices that could be heard several city blocks away, to protest forced public-sector sackings the inspectors are demanding.
(5) The works of this period include Revelation and Fall (1966), in which a nun in blood-red costume and a megaphone shrieks expressionist poems of Georg Trakl, the Missa super l’Homme Armé (1968), a parody of a Latin Mass, and above all Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969).
(6) I gaze, bemused and, yes, fascinated, at curious anthropological artefacts such as Bride Wars or He's Just Not That Into You or Confessions of a Shopaholic, in which Kate Hudson or Ginnifer Goodwin or Isla Fisher play characters who might almost belong to a third gender, a bubble-headed one that emits ear-splitting shrieks, teeters constantly on the verge of hysteria and acts as an indiscriminate mouthpiece for the placement of overpriced tat.
(7) One group of women shrieked “Hillary!” as she bent down to greet them.
(8) Leaving a Murdoch-dominated media landscape with shows where, each week, shrieking irradiated cannibals sing power ballads as they compete for the right to die?
(9) What everyone can hear, loud as a burglar alarm, is the shriek of self-interest dressed up as national interest.
(10) Coyle is a parliamentary newbie elected only in May, so we might cordially warn him and all those Labour and Conservative MPs who have shrieked about “bullying” that they spent this week in presentational danger of reducing a bombing campaign to what Alfred Hitchcock called a MacGuffin – “a plot device that motivates the characters and advances the story”, but which is often unimportant in itself.
(11) They believe they have a good idea about who the core readership is, and one of the ways they prise a reaction from that readership is through shrieked alerts and cautionary tales about The Other.
(12) Instead listeners heard a piercing shriek as Pargetter slid off the roof of his stately home, after defying his wife's orders and yielding to the suggestion of his brother-in-law, David, that it would be a good time to take down the banner, in icy darkness in the middle of a family party.
(13) Fellows of the Royal Society aren't supposed to shriek.
(14) Hope, change ... and TV in a hundred years Photograph: AMC Todd: You remember last year when pale, hollow-eyed individuals wandered out onto the streets of our great nation, grabbing anyone they could see by the lapels and shrieking, "HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THIS SHOW BREAKING BAD?
(15) Vote Green and you’ll get Tories!” they shriek at me.
(16) Had this announcement been made about the Queen, headlines would have shrieked, “Abdication!” Aides have stressed that she will carry on.
(17) I used to worry that computers were to blame: that modern connectivity was steadily turning all of us into a bunch of fake, shrieking character actors.
(18) The risks are in being ignored entirely or forcing an interjection and appearing “shrill” – the death shriek for women trying to get ahead anywhere.
(19) Particularly arresting were the new uses Bush was making of her voice: tracks such as Pull Out the Pin and Suspended in Gaffa teemed with a panoply of exaggerated accents and jarring phrasings, as Bush applied thespian emphasis on particular words or syllables, and developed a whole new vocabulary of harsh shrieks and throat-scorched yelps.
(20) Every open space, including in the CBD, sees rockets and flares shriek through the dark without warning and silhouettes run from recently lit fizzing cylinders.
Squeak
Definition:
(v. i.) To utter a sharp, shrill cry, usually of short duration; to cry with an acute tone, as an animal; or, to make a sharp, disagreeable noise, as a pipe or quill, a wagon wheel, a door; to creak.
(v. i.) To break silence or secrecy for fear of pain or punishment; to speak; to confess.
(n.) A sharp, shrill, disagreeable sound suddenly utered, either of the human voice or of any animal or instrument, such as is made by carriage wheels when dry, by the soles of leather shoes, or by a pipe or reed.
Example Sentences:
(1) reversed the increase in locomotion and elevation of multiple squeak thresholds in the bilaterally kindled rats.
(2) squeaks Tess, spinning around outside the reception at MediaCityUK, pointing at the deserted metallic acropolis.
(3) Mice appeared hyperreactive after 8-12 min and then squeaked and fought each other.
(4) Pony trekking in Glenshiel Think soft velvety noses, shaggy mains, the heady smell of saddle soap and the reassuring squeak of leather as you saddle up for a trek into the mountains on a sturdy, sure-footed Highland pony.
(5) With the eight lanes of France’s most famous avenue cleared of all traffic on Paris’s first car-free day , the usual cacophony of car-revving and thundering motorbike engines had given way to the squeak of bicycle wheels, the clatter of skateboards, the laughter of children on rollerblades and even the gentle rustling of wind in the trees.
(6) Increased escape behavior, heterogrooming, squeaking, and two cases of stupor were observed, suggesting possible equivalents of anxiousness.
(7) Throw in the 367 he made in the Ashes and he has a first-class aggregate of 1,435 at a squeak over 50.
(8) They barely made it out of the group, they insist on playing with a traffic cone as their third striker and they barely squeaked past a couple of half-decent teams in the knockout stage.
(9) There was barely a squeak of protest when the government announced that the SPA would reach 67 in 2028.” Possible future changes to state pension entitlements were hinted at by the chancellor , Philip Hammond, in his autumn statement when he said: “As we look ahead to the next parliament, we will need to ensure we tackle the challenges of rising longevity and fiscal sustainability.” There are also fears that the government will water down the state pension “triple lock”, which means that the payments rise in line which ever is the highest of average wages, inflation, or 2.5%.
(10) The patients presented with rapidly developing breathlessness, and râles and a high-pitched mid-inspiratory squeak were heard over the lung fields.
(11) I am the only politician in the UK to have led a minority government, which I did between 2007 and 2011, so I know, from difficult experience, how to make the pips squeak,” he said.
(12) They did not record any league wins after that and only squeaked past Stevenage in the semi-final.
(13) "At night you can hear them squeaking," he recorded.
(14) She isn't as enraged about this issue as, say, Jennifer Weiner, the romantic novelist who is on a campaign to be reviewed alongside Jonathan Franzen et al, but, says: "I think they only let a few of us squeak through at a time.
(15) The New Labour revolution of the mid-1994s decreed that, after four successive election defeats, it would be electoral suicide to return to the rhetoric of the 1970s, when the then Labour shadow chancellor, Denis Healey, was reported (inaccurately) as saying that he wanted to squeeze the rich until the "pips squeaked".
(16) That is, the incidence of squeaking and the magnitude of muscular contractions were significantly higher in these animals compared with the gallstone-free mice.
(17) Those involving predominantly the alpha frequency range are alpha squeak, retained alpha, alpha-delta sleep, unilateral decrease in reactivity of alpha activity, and extreme spindles.
(18) The NHS only squeaked through the election with emergency Treasury bungs: two thirds of trusts are in deep debt, quality inspections worsening.
(19) But she has yet to win a state in the north by a convincing margin – squeaking wins in Iowa and Massachusetts by only a few thousand voters – and Sanders won three of the latest four states voting over the weekend.
(20) All had symptoms, signs (wheeze in 11, high pitched inspiratory "squeaks" in six, stridor in three), and physiological abnormalities characteristic of severe or worsening airways obstruction.