Example Sentences

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Ava comes screamingly close to doing that at the peak of "Mrs. Table."

From Salon • May 9, 2025

“He has been called brilliant, thoughtful, incisive and screamingly funny,” Time magazine observed in 1981, christening him “Terrible Tom, the TV Tiger.”

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2024

In that movie, Hüller had a screamingly funny supporting role as a harried film director navigating an unholy mix of personal and professional disasters.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2023

"Artists should own their own work for so many reasons, but the most screamingly obvious one is that the artist is the only one who really knows that body of work," she added.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2021

Theodora’s grasp loosened, and tightened, and Eleanor, lulled for a minute by the sounds, started and looked across to where Theodora ought to be in the darkness, and then thought, screamingly, Why is it dark?

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson