How to Use screamer in a Sentence

screamer

noun
  • The batter hit a screamer right at the shortstop.
  • She kicked a screamer into the net.
  • Don't startle her—she's a screamer.
  • My last computer was pretty fast, but this one's a real screamer.
  • Beth Mead took the ball wide of O’Hara on the left and served in a curling, low screamer.
    Andrew Keh, New York Times, 2 July 2019
  • Owen Miller, in the sixth inning, sent a screamer back to the mound that Greinke caught.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The red-faced screamer is now a sweet big-sister-to-be.
    Caroline Langerman, Washington Post, 23 July 2019
  • That was in the era of 'dreamers and telephone screamers.
    Karen Bliss, Billboard, 5 Jan. 2018
  • There are screamers, which sound like a squealing duck and trail a tail of flame.
    David Gutman, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2020
  • On cue, Tellez lined a 112.9-mph screamer but right at Bell at first base, who gloved it to end the threat.
    Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2022
  • The rock 'n' blues screamer, who will turn 40 on Jan. 29, has suffered from over-singing.
    Jon Bream, Star Tribune, 12 Jan. 2021
  • More of a huffer than a screamer, the turbo four shoves the Mazda along on a wave of low-end torque.
    Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Pagani just unveiled the Huayra R, a track-only screamer to close out the Huayra line, which launched for 2014.
    Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Max Muncy was playing halfway to the right field fence when Santana sent a screamer to his right.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 9 July 2019
  • Chris Duvall fired a surprise screamer off a loose ball in the 41st minute that just barely went wide of goal.
    oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2020
  • The play began when Wiemer got an excellent jump on a screamer off the bat of Verdugo.
    Journal Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Who can forget his screamer at Stamford Bridge in the dawn of the Guardiola era?
    Juan Pimiento, chicagotribune.com, 29 Apr. 2018
  • But Thomas-Ailara ended it with a screamer from the left side that cut across the court and landed inbounds.
    Tony Baranek, Daily Southtown, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Cristiano Ronaldo has scored more than his fair share of screamers.
    SI.com, 27 Oct. 2019
  • With the deficit narrowed to 3-1 and Pederson now 90 feet from home plate, Pollock lined a screamer that Strasburg snagged out of the air.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The Reign’s most dangerous chance of the first half came in the 29th minute, a screamer off the foot of Rapinoe toward the near post that was saved by Bella Bixby.
    oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Fans were very quick to forget the red card however, as a Toni Kroos screamer put Real 2-0 up.
    SI.com, 17 Aug. 2019
  • For Democrats, a smooth and soft-spoken hard-liner may be a bigger threat than a caustic screamer.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Plus, how could the Fire not win after Aleksandar Katai’s amazing screamer of a goal?
    Juan Pimiento, chicagotribune.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • These screamers can no longer be condescended to, as a quirky sideshow to pop music.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The screamers on sports television networks and radio stations should feel free to rip and roar as well.
    Ailene Voisin, sacbee, 10 Aug. 2017
  • The screamer is released from his obsession, finally at home in the world.
    Mark Greif, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Urged out from the line of shufflers and idlers, watchers, pavement men, a big blond screamer flailed at the kerb, denouncing all traffic.
    Leo Robson, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Eden Hazard scored a screamer to level things up in the 82nd minute, but completely blanked the man who assisted him, David Luiz.
    SI.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • At that exact moment, Chauncey Dalton—the Babe Ruth of our middle school—released a screamer that caught me right on the solar plexus.
    Joe Zimmerman, The New Yorker, 9 June 2020

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