banshee
noun
(in Irish folklore) a spirit in the form of a wailing woman who appears to or is heard by members of a family as a sign that one of them is about to die.
banshees
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pluralof banshee.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
For example, the studio felt that the film should be shorter and that there was too much flying around on the ikran — what the humans call the banshees.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
This is a ghost ship, a skeleton crew drifting through the doldrums, encircled by YouTube banshees wailing into the night.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 25, 2020
I’d heard its screaming brakes and thought of banshees.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
