screak

Example Sentences

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The soprano screak of carriage wheels punished my ear.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

The rat stopped under a chair and let out a furious screak.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

Along the brick sidewalk stretched a line of ageing wooden pickets and about midway in their extent hung the wooden gate with the screak.

From Stubble by Looms, George

She did not run against chairs nor move a stool so that the legs emitted a "screak" of agony, and she could sit still for an hour at a time if she had a book.

From A Little Girl in Old Boston by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

Then only the distant rumble of the Elevated Railroad could be heard occasionally, or the far, seaward whistle of some steamer, or the scrape and screak of a street-car.

From The Rich Little Poor Boy by Gates, Eleanor