Example Sentences

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At 4:50 Excelsior has shrieked every settler awake.

From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Vorst, Marie Van

A cockatoo has shrieked out in dismay at some grim nightmare of a snake.

From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

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 O'Donnell, Elliott