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will shriek

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If you stop playing the bagpipe before all the air is out, it will shriek.

From Washington Times Jan. 31, 2017

There are little stylistic differences — one guy will shriek and jump out of his chair; another will just sit there open-mouthed — but everyone basically has the same responses at the same moments.

From New York Times Nov. 27, 2011

“Badly,” said Hizdahr, “though perhaps they will surprise us. More like they will shriek and run about and try to climb out of the pit. That is what makes this a folly.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

The system will shriek when something outside starts to come through a door or a window.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements

And from morning till night we will shriek with the whole width of our gullets, "Brekekekex, coax, coax."

From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes