as in to scream
to cry out loudly and emotionally
the children shrieked with excitement
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Recent Examples of shriek
Lauren Huff, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2024
Advertisement There are paintings, dolls and ceramic figures, each with its own expression — smiling, laughing, smirking, weeping or silently shrieking.
—Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
The whole stadium let out a shriek of excitement in response.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 24 Aug. 2024
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Verb
Our ears are still ringing from watching fans become shrieking banshees upon realizing that one of her professional dancers was actually the NFL star.
—Lauren Huff, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2024
Advertisement There are paintings, dolls and ceramic figures, each with its own expression — smiling, laughing, smirking, weeping or silently shrieking.
—Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
Noun
Seeing the bus, the young woman raised a whistle to her lips and blew, sending a shriek across the steady hum of traffic.
—Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
The whole stadium let out a shriek of excitement in response.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 24 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shriek
Verb
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Are we meant to sympathize with this creature as people scream in terror and call it a monster and attack it and scream for it to be shot?—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
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Ahmad would scream in terror, afraid of something beyond his family’s perception.—
Alia Malek,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The jungle struck up its evening symphony: the sweet chittering of insects, the distant bellowing of monkeys, the occasional screech of a kite.—
Charlie Cordero,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2025
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But as the race against former President Trump screeches into its final week, joy has taken the back seat.—
David Lauter,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Oct. 2024
Verb
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One day, when the cat in our local bodega poked its head out of the store, Ellie squealed like a child.—
Camille Bromley Gabra Zackman Krish Seenivasan David Mason,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2025
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So many sounds emerge, subtle things: drills, squealing, buzzing, vocal loops, along with guitar solos, shimmering guitar melodies, riffs, accents, and additional, complimentary guitar lines draped on top of each other.—
Aaron Gilbreath,
SPIN,
31 Dec. 2024
Noun
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What's more, this door alarm features three sensitivity levels and emits a loud shrill that will instantly scare an intruder away.—
Stephanie Gray,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Jan. 2025
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The cheering was so loud that even ear plugs wouldn’t have masked the shrill.—
Alli Rosenbloom,
CNN,
11 Aug. 2023
Verb
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Europe has long been working against any Darwinist instincts, spending the past several years trying to wedge its head inside the mouth of the lion while their own people yell at them to stop.—
Rachel Marsden,
Hartford Courant,
19 Jan. 2025
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Though there was no damage to either car, a crowd of at least 10 Turks soon gathered, yelling at Hiba.—
Alia Malek,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Sneaker squeaks were part of the in-arena chorus of sounds as were the thumps of bodies hitting the floor.—
Sabreena Merchant,
The Athletic,
17 Jan. 2025
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And on Thursday night, Ken Carter was one of about two dozen people inside a basketball gym, where the only signs a game was taking place were the squeaks of sneakers and four buzzers to signal the end of each quarter.—
Evan Webeck,
The Mercury News,
13 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Don’t be that guy who runs the same series of seven yelps all morning long.—
Alex Robinson,
Outdoor Life,
1 May 2024
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And the merry-go-round of yelps and vocal chops at its core gleam like Christmas morning.—
Pitchfork,
Pitchfork,
5 Dec. 2024
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“Shriek.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shriek. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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