Example Sentences
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The squeals from the crowd take us back to the 1940s, but the quality of the music itself is timeless.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025
We sat at a picnic table; the squeals of children released to the joys of summer carried in the warm Alabama air.
From Salon • Sep. 19, 2024
"These crows rise early and interrupt our sleep with their annoying squeals and cawing," Mombasa resident Victor Kimuli told the BBC.
From BBC • Aug. 1, 2024
Shouts, squeals, whoops, cries, wails and those voluble outbursts we have no name for but immediately recognize as primal emotions are elemental to her song vocabulary.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2023
Within a few seconds, he reaches down into the tailings and squeals out, “Turquoise!”
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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