had been shrieking
- past perfect progressive of shriek.
Example Sentences
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Moments before, some of the kids had been shrieking as loudly as Mr. Hodge and Gary, but now they, too, had gone silent.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
For a long while past, many in the wagons had been shrieking, calling upon their mothers, trying to rise and fling themselves upon the road.
From The Conscript A Story of the French war of 1813 by Erckmann-Chatrian
He suddenly spied me, and by the uncanny glare he gave I knew right off he was the one who had been shrieking, he was the crazy man who lives there!
From Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer by Halsey, Rena I.
