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• Sally’s car uttered a hideous shriek when she applied the brakes.From the entry utter
• We are trapped!” When she finally stopped shrieking, for lack of breath, my ears were ringing.2017, Robin Hobb [pen name; Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden], Assassin’s Fate (book III of the The Fitz and the Fool Trilogy), Del Rey, →ISBN. From the entry breadmonger
• Some of them let out rapid, high-pitched shrieks and struggled against their binds.2017 April 11, D. L. Armillei, Shock of Fate: Anchoress Series Book One, Diamond Cove Publishing, LLC, →ISBN. From the entry allocamelus
• I stopped cold and let out a shriek (remember, I was 14).2012 July 14, Sandi Bezanson-Chan, “Summer Jobs Series: Learning to handle 'ginch' in the hotel laundry”, in National Post. From the entry ginch
• The toddler at the far table issued a little shriek of delight over something.2011, Lisa Unger, Darkness, My Old Friend, Broadway, published 2011, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry indoor voice
• I want to laugh, shriek with laughter, fall off my chair.1985, Margaret Atwood, “Birth Day”, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, pages 148–149. From the entry scrabble
• Yet today how often, how impassionately, how accursingly people moan and shriek when they suffer!1982 March 31, Christ Lutheran Church, “The Cup at Calvary”, in The Daily Review, volume 20, number 63, Morgan City, La., page 7, column 1. From the entry accursingly
• His shriek was as feeble as the plaint of a grass-stalk in a storm.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter V, in Capricornia, page 75. From the entry plaint
• Peter set off at a run, his feet skiffling up sand, his muscles cramping , his bones shrieking .2018, Kirsty Logan, The Gloaming. From the entry skiffle
• There was a pause I didn't like, punctuated by shrieks of shrill laughter from the hombres at the bar.2016, Lawrence Winkler, “Bajada”, in Orion’s Cartwheel (Cartwheels Quadrilogy; 1), Victoria, B.C.: First Choice Books, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry hombre
• Anarchy and shrieked as it teleported toward him.2016 June 21, Winter Morgan, Terror on a Treasure Hunt: An Unofficial Minetrapped Adventure, #3, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry tp
• I also remember my sister Mimi and her friends, wearing their bobby sox, shrieking whenever Frank Sinatra came on the radio.2015, Paul F. Cummins, Confessions of a Headmaster, Pasadena, Calif.: XENO Books, Red Hen Press, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry bobby sox
• There was a sudden loud shriek which nearly set me screaming: I’ve been found out, I’ve been discovered.2014, Edward Carey, Foulsham (Iremonger; 2), Hot Key Books, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry steam-engine
• And whenever we heard the droll shrieking from down toward Drunken Jack Island they told us the story of Crab Boy.2013, Lynn Michelsohn, Crab Boy’s Ghost: Gullah Folktales from Murrells Inlet’s Brookgreen Gardens in the South Carolina Lowcountry, →ISBN. From the entry droll
• It shrieked and writhed as the heat seared its flesh, dropping its spear to bat at the smoldering wounds.2013 April, Chris A. Jackson, “A Surprise Engagement”, in Pirate’s Honor (Pathfinder Tales), Paizo, →ISBN, pages 113–114. From the entry cecaelia
• "Then that's what you are!" I shrieked.2011, Will Cunningham, How to Win a Family Fight, page 165. From the entry harlotize
• "She thinks I'm a lesbo!" my sister shrieked.2009, Antonya Nelson, Nothing Right, page 261. From the entry crack snacker
• Almost no singer in rock enunciates better, and he used that skill to make noise: teeth-and-tongue clucking, gut-punch bellows, hair-on-fire shrieking.2003 September 9, Ben Ratliff, “Music Review: Fluttering Rat-a-tats to Celebrate a Birthday”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 Sep 2017. From the entry hair-on-fire
• And Terice shrieked again and Helene gave a hysterical yoop.1998, Mignon Good Eberhart, The Mystery of Hunting's End, page 119. From the entry yoop
• It contains both the complaint of God against the wicked and the shriek of the smitten man, demanding justice of God.1997, Abraham Joshua Heschel, edited by Fritz A. Rothschild, Between God and Man: An Interpretation of Judaism: From the Writings of…. From the entry smitten
• " "A bad joke!" shrieked David, and in that cry I could detect all the ancient terrors of Israel.1986, Claire Martin, The Legacy, page 25. From the entry bad joke
• Somewhere in the midst of searing, blinding pain a tiny mode of coherence bobbed, buffeted on shrieking data currents.1986, Victor Milán, The Cybernetic Samurai, Berkley, →ISBN, page 139. From the entry hyperplasma
• Kids raced and shrieked, toasted anything toastable on sticks, and upset the clean-up by showering each other with dry leaves.1985, A. Carman Clark, From the orange mailbox. From the entry toastable
• A small formation of hadedahs, four or five of them, flew past overhead, shrieking their wild death-cries across the valley.1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 204. From the entry hadeda
• Jem, naturally, was Boo: he went under the front steps and shrieked and howled from time to time.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC. From the entry parcel out
• Wind due north, shrieking over stiff land; two feet of snow, all substances glibbed with ice and granite-hard.1944, Emily Carr, “Gran’s Battle”, in The House of All Sorts. From the entry glib
• The coupe shrieked as it hit the curve, but Harry managed the twist with precision and the roadworthy car responded.1937 July 15, Maxwell Grant, “House of Silence”, in The Shadow. From the entry roadworthy
• The yells and yammering, croaking, jibbering and jabbering; howls, growls and curses; shrieking and skriking, that followed were beyond description.1937, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit. From the entry skrike
• Moya and her new friend Mamie have been shrieking appropriate quotations at one another, upstairs and down, for days past.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry shaft
• Your idea of a woman is some one who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse.1923, Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links. From the entry prehistoric
• Every time the boat was thrown upward, Shakro shrieked wildly.1918, Maxim Gorky, “My Fellow-traveller”, in J. [K.] M. Shirazi [et al.], transl., Creatures that Once were Men […], New York, N.Y.: Boni…. From the entry wretched
• Once, she’d FaceTimed me from the bathtub, a setting that felt so intimate to me, and my inner monologue was shrieking, “Act normal, act normal!”2022 March 8, Jill Gutowitz, “A Supercut of Lesbian Yearning”, in Girls Can Kiss Now, Atria Books, →ISBN, pages 91–92. From the entry facetime
• In world full of gay drones on their merry way to normalhood, a gay flamboyant savior emerged to make us laugh and shriek with delight.2022, Justin Elizabeth Sayre, From Gay to Z: A Queer Compendium, page 43. From the entry normalhood
• Nikita shrieked and pretended the kids were getting her wetter than they were, and that she was out of water in her Super Soaker.2018, Jamie Farrell, Pippa Grant, Unhitched. From the entry super soaker
• And Kaszaat let out a shriek of pure anger, bursting forwards suddenly, flinging her hand up towards Drephos as though in salute.2010, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Salute the Dark: Shadows of the Apt 4, unnumbered page. From the entry salute
• It saved the colonel, but the indignant gente threw beerbottles and cushions and everything they could lay hands on, shrieking with rage.1966, Southwest Review, volumes 51–52, page 165. From the entry beerbottle
• The onslaught of a mob of shrieking youngsters seeking a rolling ball between his highly polished shoes gave him no concern at all.1922 November, A.E. Dingle, “A Bride from the Sea: A Complete Novelette—The Strange Cruise of the Seafarer and Her Crew of a Sailor, a…. From the entry bovinely
• It fell plop on my chest and I heard Ivan shriek just like a girl does when you hold a wiggling snake before her.1922, Neil Boyton, “I Celebrate My Fourteenth Birthday”, in Cobra Island: A Catholic Scout’s Adventures, New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Oh.…. From the entry monkeyese

Meaning of shriek

1. noun A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.
2. noun An exclamation mark.
3. verb To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.

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Questions about shriek in a sentence

How do you use shriek in a sentence?

Shriek is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Sally’s car uttered a hideous shriek when she applied the brakes.”

What is a short sentence with shriek?

“"Then that's what you are!" I shrieked.”

What does shriek mean?

Shriek means a sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.