(v. i.) To utter a shrill, abrupt scream; to squeak harshly.
(n.) Act of squawking; a harsh squeak.
(n.) The American night heron. See under Night.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's also a big day for company results, both in the UK: David Buik (@truemagic68) UK results today - INMARSAT, WINCANTON, HALFORDS, C&W COMM, SUPERGROUP, REED ELSEVIER, WM MORRISON, INVENSYS, TATE & LYLE, RANDGOLD November 7, 2013 And across Europe: Squawk Box Europe (@SquawkBoxEurope) Big earnings day in Europe.
(2) While Jackie, 43, titivates her fleet of irritable lapdogs, David, 74, lumbers around like an elderly labrador in beige utility shorts, barking about third parties and negative equity into his mobile headset, one ear forever scanning the distance for the elusive squawk of an incremental loan agreement.
(3) "In some ways the amazing thing is that Edward Stourton lasted 10 years as a presenter of the Today programme," Phibbs squawked.
(4) I was a young woman when we started,” she squawked.
(5) As we stand by the edge of the Eaton Square Gardens, I can see a magpie or two hopping around, squawking at the hawk.
(6) On social media each day, a squadron of unionist sentinels scans Twitter and Facebook for evidence of “divisiveness” before squawking and shaking their virtual heads in despair at how political discourse has become infected by the poison of “divisiveness”.
(7) I was sitting in my bedroom and I saw the door open,” she says quietly as she sits on her verandah, chickens squawking in the yard.
(8) The "swazzle" – a device puppeteers use to create Punch's inimitable squawk – has been passed down through five generations of the Codman family.
(9) Six dogs, six cats, rabbits and white rats make up a menagerie of slobbering, purring affection, punctuated by squawks from the geese as they flee the Rottweiler.
(10) Among the prefects of political and economic commentary, the standard thing to do this morning is to rehearse Trump’s fury at free trade, to look at the voters that most of them have never bothered talking to – and to squawk that America has struck out in a new and radically different direction.
(11) Hey, it's not their money: 25% of income tax is paid by the top 1% and the trick for politicians is how best to pluck the bird without it squawking off to Zurich or New York.
(12) Is the "dead parrot" merely resting, asked Cash "and does he have a Baldrick-like plan to introduce the parliament act so we can get the parrot squawking again?"
(13) And for young people, that’s debt-free college; that is finding that job after you graduate,” Robby Mook, Clinton’s campaign director, said on CNBC’s Squawk Box a couple of weeks earlier.
(14) Indeed, zoo keepers only got confirmation that Mei Xiang was pregnant on Sunday night when a member of the team monitoring the 24-hour web camera trained on the bear these last two weeks heard the distinctive noisy squawk of a newborn cub.
(15) "Essen is dying to get in the middle rather than stuck out on the right," squawks Tony Nolan.
(16) Crucially the Highland wildcat is a member of the first of these subspecies while the domestic moggie that sleeps on your sofa and squawks for food in your kitchen is a member of the Middle Eastern subspecies.
(17) But in all the squawking over the past few days about what’s wrong in economics and with the economy, her brutally simple criticism is closer to the mark than are most of the pundit class.
(18) He had starred in 1927 in The Jazz Singer, the first full-length "all-talking," all-squawking picture.
(19) We have pet rabbits and a talking parrot who can squawk the Simpsons theme tune in one of our homes and the residents love caring for them.
(20) Big squawks when he thinks I've asked something ridiculous, stuttering gulps when he's laughing – sometimes nervously – at his own jokes.
Yell
Definition:
(v. i.) To cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror.
(v. t.) To utter or declare with a yell; to proclaim in a loud tone.
(n.) A sharp, loud, hideous outcry.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Independent noted that one of the female protagonists yelled "You c***!"
(2) I started yelling at him to come back,” Brittany Nicely, of Dayton, told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
(3) Residents had called police after spotting a man wandering around the park and yelling incoherently.
(4) Five minutes from time a fat red shirt stalked past making the tosser sign and, for emphasis, yelling: "Fucking wankers!"
(5) And a woman in front of me said: “They are calling for Fox.” I didn’t know which booth to go to, then suddenly there was a man in front of me, heaving with weaponry, standing with his legs apart yelling: “No, not there, here!” I apologised politely and said I’d been buried in my book and he said: “What do you expect me to do, stand here while you finish it?” – very loudly and with shocking insolence.
(6) On the whole though, there is not much yelling but much tapping of keyboards.
(7) While Terry said that he did not see anyone else while confined at Homan in 2011, he said he heard people yelling “no, no, no” and “stop”.
(8) He lay on his back with his shoulders on the grass, his colleagues standing around, too nonplussed to yell their praises.
(9) When David Tennant was waxing eloquent in that legal drama The Escape Artist, no one yelled out from the jury that his watch looked bloody expensive.
(10) Bob Wigley, the Yell chairman and former Merrill Lynch senior executive, has emerged as a possible contender for the role of ITV chairman.
(11) "Yell remains our least preferred stock in the sector and has to be seen as a high-risk, speculative investment," said analysts at Numis.
(12) He said he was stopped by a Hi Tech security guard who yelled at him that they were trespassing and demanded his driver’s licence.
(13) Members of the House of Representatives voted to remove all flags at the federal Capitol, after a heated procedural debate led by Republicans that led to yelling and the display of the Confederate flag – on the House floor.
(14) During the manifestation, I heard an elder woman yell “Why are they murdering them?
(15) Donald Trump has reportedly yelled down the telephone at Australia’s prime minister and veered off into rants about China and Nato with French leader François Hollande.
(16) "Sometimes people do things to one another that don't make them feel good," Harris explains to a group of primary school-age children before prompting them, as an exercise, to yell "Go away!"
(17) Africans yelled at the police, "Cowards" and "Kill the white men."
(18) Two elderly men yell angrily from the window of a car with posters of the president-elect, Abd el-Fatah al-Sisi, plastered all over it.
(19) "What the hell," the old man yelled over the motor.
(20) One teacher, who was hiding in a closet in the math lab, heard Thorne yell, "Put the gun down!"