screech
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Seagull imitators compete for best screech at sixth European championship.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026
“They’re big and colorful, and they screech and eat things. Some have feathers and claws. It’s just so extravagant and fun. Take the Dilophosaurus in ‘Jurassic Park.’
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 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
Nail guns tat-tat-tat and chain saws screech on almost every block.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
He seized one of the drinking cups and pulled; it came away with a great clattering screech.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
China’s own export-led recovery screeches to a halt if importing nations are in recession or depression thanks to the Hormuz shutdown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 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
The jungle answered with unknown screeches and a low, murmuring hiss.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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
On Thursday, mangled metal screeched as an excavator compacted the skeletons of former homes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026
Spreading his wings to their incredible length, Snow screeched, “I’ll bet anything. Whatever you say, mouse.”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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
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
The twins gallop past my bedroom door, screeching.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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