shriek

I brace my nervous system for the piercing shriek, let it play like my own little theme song.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce was being interviewed on national broadcaster ABC on Monday night when he interrupted the one-on-one to shriek "sit down!"

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

Although she’s normally impervious to noise—even the most blood-curdling shriek from the many horror films we watch together can’t stir her—the sound of my voice emerging from her collar gave her pause.

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026

She sang open-throated declarations, recited broken poetic verses, scatted with the authority of a jazz singer, moaned with bluesy intent, and occasionally let loose an unbridled shriek or giggle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026

He was speaking, but we couldn't hear him over the thick shriek of the van’s horn.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

There were shrieks of relief and whoops of disbelief, tears and fireworks and renditions of “Empire State of Mind” and “New York, New York.”

From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026

They finished a roughly $3,000 project to add french doors to their living room to create an office space insulated from the shrieks of their almost-2-year-old.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025

"Celia shrieks strangely," read one, while another said: "They repeat the wail."

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2025

LeBron makes no secret of his love of horror movies, and him taking the court too old to compete with two sons who aren’t NBA caliber would elicit shrieks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025

Sunny was at an age where one mostly speaks in a series of unintelligible shrieks.

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket

Spectators shrieked when the sun vanished altogether and looked around with their glasses off.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

"How do you think I feel?... He set me up," he shrieked.

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026

At the second smaller stage, dancers shrieked as confetti cannons fired simultaneously with a bass drop, glitter falling like shimmering rain.

From Barron's ● Nov. 23, 2025

He sang Beatles songs in perfect pitch and shrieked in glee whenever a lighthouse came into view.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2023

Bess and George pulled out their own invitations and shrieked.

From "Sleepover Sleuths: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #1" by Carolyn Keene

In the 1990s, fro-yo nurtured a dubious reputation for healthiness summed up by George Costanza shrieking in disbelief on “Seinfeld,” “How could this not have any fat?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

She watched intently perched on a bench at the very front of the room, at times shrieking and nudging her sister as she pointed at the cafe’s new large flat-screen that loomed overhead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

The second pilot meets their passengers’ fear with hysteria, shrieking, outburst—that pilot shames their passengers, saying, “I can’t do my job because of YOU.”

From Slate ● May 10, 2026

I’ll pause here for general gasping and shrieking, and murmurs of, “Wait, there’s a dividend?”

From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025

A faint voice calls behind me over the shrieking wind.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera