screech

In fact, any birder will tell you that the sky-rending screech that accompanies bald eagles in most media depictions actually belongs to a red-tailed hawk.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026

Pareja then saw the housing market screech to a halt during the Great Recession, a crisis in which subprime mortgages were a central cause.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2025

Nail guns tat-tat-tat and chain saws screech on almost every block.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025

On occasion those offering a majority opinion screech like howler monkeys.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2025

The train pulls in with a steam-swirling screech.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

Brown kiwis have been reintroduced to a “newly stoat-free Wellington suburb,” where residents now awaken every morning to the screeches and songs of native parrots, pigeons and tuis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

As one locomotive screeches into the old El-Raml Station, commuters and visitors crane their necks out of giant windows at the historic neo-Venetian buildings overhead.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

A few distant screeches of brooms on cobblestone, that’s all.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

Calakmul Biosphere Reserve on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula—The mother bat screeches furiously as Rodrigo Medellín Legorreta grips her, a thumb under her chin to prevent her razor-sharp teeth from sinking into his gloved hand.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 11, 2023

And I know we didn’t look bold when the rats erupted from Doug Swieteck’s coat with a full scale of screeches.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

Transport across the island, which was already reeling from the worst economic crisis in memory, has screeched to a near halt as petrol pumps run dry.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

Live events screeched to a halt during the Covid-19 pandemic but bounced back coming out of it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

In the 1970s, she observed a stratification between groups of chimpanzees at a national park in Tanzania, with increasing aggression as males screeched and threw objects.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

ICE arrested him, threw him in one of the cars, and screeched out, onto the freeway, gone.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2025

The remaining iron monsters screeched at this new enemy, and they thundered past us to attack her.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

When they took the stage, the band wasted no time exploding into a searing 10-song set led by “That Girl” and including a screeching cover of the Kingsmen’s “Louie Louie.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

The concern among many observers is that Fedorov's departure will bring his ambitious reform and innovation programme to a screeching halt, despite Zelensky's assurances that nothing will change.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

The kitchen sinks aren’t working, and the plumbing is simultaneously screeching and groaning.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

That came to a screeching halt after Zscaler on May 26 beat Wall Street’s expectations with its fiscal 2026 third-quarter earnings but reported sales guidance that came in light.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

I hear the clumping of shoes, the thumping of backpacks on the floor, the screeching of chairs as the room starts to fill behind me.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari