Example Sentences

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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

The owl will shriek upon the roof, And raise the echoes of the forest.

From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor