SHRIEKING in a Sentence

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126 example sentences for SHRIEKING, such as:

1. The ship whistle shrieked to leave.
2. He suddenly let out a piercing shriek.
3. The audience was shrieking with laughter.
4. They were dragged from their homes, shrieking and weeping.
5. There was shriek of laughter from the direction of Sarah's room.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHRIEKING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shrieking
 a.  making high-pitched piercing cry or sound;
 n.  high-pitched piercing cries or sounds;
Classic Sentence: (114 in 8 pages)
1  "And looks a lot like Betty, too," said Camilla, and then disappeared shrieking amid a welter of skirts and pantalets and bobbing hats, as Betty, who did have a long face, began pinching her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Carol joined them; she ducked shrieking small boys, and helped babies construct sand-basins for unfortunate minnows.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  He dropped into the shrieking desk-chair.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  Suppose he were sued by some vicious shrieking woman for malpractice.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
5  While he was speaking these words, the howling of the shrieking, slanting storm without seemed to add new power to the preacher, who, when describing Jonah's sea-storm, seemed tossed by a storm himself.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
6  When the shrieking behind them died away, Pavel realized that he was alone upon the familiar road.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
7  It was a scene of wild confusion, women shrieking and wringing their hands and fainting, and men fighting and trampling down everything in their way.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
8  The place, of course, was in an uproar; women fainting and shrieking, and men rushing in.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
9  In the same moment I saw her running at me, shrieking, with a whirl of fire blazing all about her, and soaring at least as many feet above her head as she was high.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLIX
10  "All together," said Anna, and she ran laughing to meet them, and embraced and swung round all the throng of swarming children, shrieking with delight.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 20
11  Bitzer had come down by train, shrieking and rattling over the long line of arches that bestrode the wild country of past and present coal-pits, with an express from Stone Lodge.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
12  He caught it up, devoured it with his eyes, and then danced madly about the room, pressing it to his bosom and shrieking out in his delight.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
13  It culminated in a hurried outbreak of almost intolerably excessive shrieking, which stopped short, leaving us stiffened in a variety of silly attitudes, and obstinately listening to the nearly as appalling and excessive silence.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
14  Cowards, you notice, are always shrieking to have troublesome people killed.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
15  The whistling sound of the runners on the snow and the voices of girls shrieking were heard from different sides.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X
Example Sentence:
1  The audience was shrieking with laughter.
2  They were dragged from their homes, shrieking and weeping.
3  The ship whistle shrieked to leave.
4  She heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass.
5  She heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass, from which she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber frame, or something of the sort.
6  She heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass, from which she concluded that it had fallen into a cucumber-frame, or something of the sort.
7  Though Rudy claimed his wife was off visiting friends, his shriek of horror when she walked into the room was tantamount to a confession that he believed she was dead.
8  And the sneeze of the baby, the shriek of the Gryphon, and all the other queer noises, would change to the confused clamour of the busy farm yard.
9  She heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass, from which she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber-frame, or something of the sort.
10  There was shriek of laughter from the direction of Sarah's room.
11  He suddenly let out a piercing shriek.
12  The steam pipes rattled suddenly, and Franklin uttered a shriek and jumped with fright.