Example Sentences

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During a challenge, the contestants - including Alan Carr, Celia Imrie and Lucy Beaumont - were tasked with asking a group of banshees to sing, before relaying the songs down a well.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2025

Both center on one of the genre’s most reliable tropes: mothers who either turn into monsters or have been banshees from hell from the very beginning.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2023

No, really: To that end, Mercedes-Benz likens this — seriously — to how the Na’vi physically connect with their banshees in the 2009 movie Avatar.

From The Verge • Jan. 7, 2020

Parents, don't let your kids run around screaming like banshees, and go to the bathroom to change their diapers, and don't complain about adults using adult language in adult conversations.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2012

The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of the blizzard.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson