shriek
noun
a loud, sharp, shrill cry.
has shrieked
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present perfectof shriek (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The raven has croaked in a high-pitched, abnormal key; the jackdaw and canary have become silent and dejected, from time to time shivering; the magpie even has feigned death; the parrot has shrieked incessantly.
From Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter by Elliott O'Donnell
At 4:50 Excelsior has shrieked every settler awake.
From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Marie Van Vorst
A cockatoo has shrieked out in dismay at some grim nightmare of a snake.
From My Tropic Isle by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
