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
The screech of truck brakes was particularly torturous, they said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2025
It made no noise, no screech of metal on glass: the cut was perfect.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
