SCREAM in a Sentence

Learn SCREAM from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

233 example sentences for SCREAM, such as:

1. A piercing scream split the air.
2. A scream broke the silence of the night.
3. I'll scream out loud if you come near me.
4. The schools are screaming for federal aid.
5. See if I don't, even if I don't scream and faint.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCREAM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
scream
 v.  give a long, loud, piercing cry
 n.  a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  See if I don't, even if I don't scream and faint.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  I'll scream out loud if you come near me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  But after all, she's never had a baby, and sometimes she makes me so nervous I could scream.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
4  She would have preferred a loud scream to silent endurance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
5  If she thought of these things, she'd begin to scream and bawl like Prissy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
6  If she stepped on one of these men, she'd scream and faint.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
7  She wanted very much to scream every time Melanie did, and only by biting her lips so hard it infuriated her could she restrain herself and drive off hysteria.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
8  When she was able to bear the sniffling noise no longer, Scarlett turned and pinched her viciously, causing Prissy to scream in good earnest before she relapsed into frightened silence.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
9  If he says "They" once more, I'll scream.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  And then he comes dragging back with the tears all over his face and he says over and over till I could scream: 'Katie Scarlett, Mrs. O'Hara is dead.'
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
11  She was bitterly cold and hungry and so fearful of what lurked in the mists about her that she tried to scream and could not.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
12  She struggled against him madly, trying to bite his hand, to kick his legs, to scream her rage, despair, hate, her agony of broken pride.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
13  Wait till I've gone and then scream if you've got to.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
14  Handling her needle awkwardly, she jabbed it into her thumb and with a little scream of pain and annoyance that made them all jump, she squeezed it until a bright red drop appeared.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
15  And then like a blinding ray of lightning, the knowledge of death and fear that suddenly made her try to scream a name and the scream was only a whisper.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  A piercing scream split the air.
2  Lou prattled on about various trivialities till I wanted to scream.
3  A terrifying scream in the blackness of the night made my blood run cold.
4  A scream broke the silence of the night.
5  The echoes of his scream sounded in the cave for several seconds.
6  He said they was crawling up his legs; and then he would give a jump and scream, and say one had bit him on the cheek -- but I couldn't see no snakes.
7  A bold black headline screamed out from the front page.
8  The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, screamed 'Off with her head! Off--'
9  She screamed out when she pricked her finger on a thorn.
10  Inside most of us is a small child screaming for attention.
11  A tumult of shouting and screaming came from within the house.
12  The little boy fell down from a chair and started screaming with pain.
13  The schools are screaming for federal aid.
14  The women were screaming and in a frenzy to get home.
15  Will found himself immediately surrounded by screaming fans.