screech
verb (used without object)
to utter or make a harsh, shrill cry or sound.
have screeched
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present perfectof screech.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 Beastie Boys have screeched the Kraken onto the ice at Climate Pledge Arena with those words all season.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2023
A railway engine might have screeched its whistle within it, and not a sound would have penetrated the apartments that surrounded it unless the door were open.
From The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont by Robert Barr
Birds that in earlier seasons would have screeched and fought, now sang and fluttered side by side, in fraternal parade on their slow pilgrimage to the far south.
From The Last Trail by Zane Grey
Faith, they'd have screeched to be heard from here to there if I'd made her the Honourable Mrs. Jack Price, and contaminated the blood of the Prices of Mullingar.
From A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope
"Your Patriot needn't have screeched at me, Ban," she murmured in an injured tone.
From Success A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams
