screech

Example Sentences

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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

The day after high school graduation, Dolly boarded the first bus for Nashville, where record producers said she sounded like a screech owl and was too country to sing country music.

From Salon • Jan. 19, 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

"Something made me jump out of bed, I don't know whether it was the screech of brakes or what," she said.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2025

It could screech and honk and run up and down a scale as long as there was a dog making him run up and down a street.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds