(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.
Squeal
Definition:
(v. i.) To cry with a sharp, shrill, prolonged sound, as certain animals do, indicating want, displeasure, or pain.
(v. i.) To turn informer; to betray a secret.
(n.) A shrill, somewhat prolonged cry.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 32 dead souls ringing the Dr Strangelove war room of the NFL ownership meeting interrupt their Randroid tongue-bathing only to squeal like scalded truffle pigs at the thought of any power devolving to the actual people whose ability, knowledge and gameplay make the NFL worth watching in the first place.
(2) Despite her famous “let’s make ’em squeal” ad, the pork-cutter is not quite the Palinesque radical Democrats depict.
(3) he squeals as he yanks the calendar out of my hands.
(4) Occasionally it has been unobtrusive – such as Nationwide's sponsorship of the cash machine in Dev's corner shop in Coronation Street – but elsewhere it's been jarring – such as ITV's deal with Samsung for The X-Factor , which led to scenes of contestants squealing with delight to receive goody bags of Samsung gadgets, and turned every phone call and video diary entry into a mini-plug for the brand.
(5) Zookeepers will also be listening for healthy squeals from the cub, and signs and sounds that it is nursing.
(6) My shaven-headed Barbie was a squealing contestant.
(7) The high-pitched squeal of F1 engines and lanyard-wearing, flag-waving fans have melted away in Melbourne to be replaced by what is becoming an annual debate in the Victorian capital – do we really want or need the Australian Grand Prix?
(8) Similarly he claimed the fantastic rewards given to bankers who then went squealing to government for protection had added to the sense in some communities that there was "a rule for one, and not for the other".
(9) September 20, 2015 James Lyons (@STJamesl) Whoever squealed on Dave must be a real trotter #imHereAllWeek September 20, 2015 Some Twitter users dug up unfortunate pictures.
(10) The family dog is the first victim in Funny Games , several horses have their throats slit in The Time of the Wolf , and Benny's Video begins with the butchery of a squealing pig – Haneke's perfectionism required the sacrifice of three porkers.
(11) Hopkins claimed the problem has been caused by ministers treating builders as "poor lambs" after they "squealed" about the viability of developments where they were required to build 30% or more affordable homes.
(12) But both require governments to stand up to the inevitable squeals from banks if Turner & Co live up to their promises to be strong.
(13) Automobile horns, squealing buses and street vendors yelling.
(14) "I'm glued to the new panda cams and thrilled to hear the squeals, which appear healthy, of our newborn cub," said Dennis Kelly, director of the Smithsonian's national zoo.
(15) At a recent event on the lack of diversity in British television , a woman in the audience told the room that as a child in the 1980s, whenever a black person appeared on TV, she and her siblings squealed with surprise to see someone who looked like them on screen.
(16) The most commonly elicited behaviors (jumping, rearing and squealing) as well as the threshold IPIs and the ceiling switch-off latencies were mapped within the PAG.
(17) Photograph: Robin Lustig for the Observer In the dust of the cathedral compound, children squealed happily from within a makeshift playground.
(18) Suddenly she disappeared behind my parked car and I heard a squeal, followed by guttural growling.
(19) First up was Andy Burnham's, prompting a ripple of feminine squeals, followed by a louder, more blokeish cheer for Ed Balls.
(20) The rules were simple: after being doused in the ice-chilled water on camera, challengers would squeal at a pitch only audible to dogs, and then nominate three other people.