screech

Seagull imitators compete for best screech at sixth European championship.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026

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 screech of tablesaws and popping of nail guns break up the silence in the fire-hollowed corners of these neighborhoods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025

She heard the car suddenly screech and the vehicle head towards the nearby home Mr Ferns shared with his mother Phyliss, where it stopped.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2025

The most horrible screech yet came from the screen.

From "Wolfie & Fly" by Cary Fagan

I know of a nurse in San Francisco who screeches her car to a stop when she spots a person in bodily distress and administers CPR if appropriate.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026

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

A shriek broke the dawn on the savannah, followed by more screeches and the rustle of branches: The wild Fongoli chimps were bidding each other good morning in the dry, scraggly Sahel.

From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026

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

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

The girl takes my arm and steers me away while the parrot screeches at the man.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

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

In the media room at the city of Los Angeles Emergency Operations Center in downtown Los Angeles, phones of elected officials, staffers and a handful of reporters screeched in unison.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025

Birds soared and swooped, screeched and fished; iguanas and lizards scrabbled; sea lions lazed and their king’s honk! echoed across the water.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

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

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

Apple stock fell on Thursday after the tech giant jacked up prices on its MacBooks and iPads, increasing worries that its comeback year could be screeching to a halt.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

Every few weeks, we hear tires screeching on the I-80 and occasionally the crunch of metal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

The pandemic brought Airbnb’s growth to a screeching halt in early 2020 and caused $1 billion in cancellations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

I risked a glance behind me—the Story Box was still there on the pedestal—and then turned to face another group of screeching metal creatures.

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