squawk

Example Sentences

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Everyone jumps a bit as the intercom box on the wall squawks to life and we hear the high-pitched voice of Mrs. Dithers, the administrative assistant.

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Whereupon Alexander mimed the death of the very last dodo, and a tragic, squawking death it was.

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“Maybe peas will go extinct,” Alexander said to his siblings, who squawked faintly but approvingly.

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The crickets and cicadas make a ceaseless, deafening buzz, coyotes cry mournfully in the distance, songbirds cheep and squawk at the first hint of dawn.

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But then the creature squawked and batted its wings.

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