scream for
phrasal verb
screamed for; screaming for; screams for
informal
1
: to demand or need (something)
People are screaming for news about the virus.
These policies just scream out for reform.
2
: to be very suitable or appropriate for (something)
Hot summer days like this just scream for ice cream and visits to the pool.
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The tactic certainly caught the attention of one of the railcar's occupants: Spencer, who spots his wife screaming for help next to the tracks and leaps from its caboose to rescue her without a second thought.
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EW.com, 6 Apr. 2025
Among the victims in Kyiv were a father and his 5-year-old daughter, and an 80-year-old woman who neighbors said could be heard screaming for help after her ninth-floor apartment caught fire.
—arkansasonline.com, 24 Mar. 2025
Just two days after anywhere between 107,000 and 325,000 Serbs stood screaming for Vucic’s political ouster outside Novi Dvor, the presidential palace, the streets were dead, with not a protester in sight.
—Tiana Lowe Doescher, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Mar. 2025
Her father, Delmar Caldwell, told the station that Cassell could hear cars driving by and was screaming for help.
—Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2025
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EW.com, 6 Apr. 2025
Among the victims in Kyiv were a father and his 5-year-old daughter, and an 80-year-old woman who neighbors said could be heard screaming for help after her ninth-floor apartment caught fire.
—arkansasonline.com, 24 Mar. 2025
Just two days after anywhere between 107,000 and 325,000 Serbs stood screaming for Vucic’s political ouster outside Novi Dvor, the presidential palace, the streets were dead, with not a protester in sight.
—Tiana Lowe Doescher, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Mar. 2025
Her father, Delmar Caldwell, told the station that Cassell could hear cars driving by and was screaming for help.
—Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for scream for
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“Scream for.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scream%20for. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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