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shrieking

adjective as in screaming

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Presumably there will be a great deal of jumping up and down excitedly and shrieking delightedly.

Her shrieking voice is distinct from all other sounds that you have heard or will ever hear.

Remember when everyone was shrieking at each other like wild banshees with rabies on those early seasons of The Real World?

As luck would have it, we avoided those arctic storms with shrieking winds.

And so on and so forth, with the ominous subtext fairly shrieking  over the pleasant and heartwarming text.

The fleshy woman climbed into the tonneau and held the still shrieking girl.

The shrieking trade-winds and the dense white fogs were hibernating somewhere out in the Pacific.

Shrieking inarticulate anathema, he rushed downstairs, the man in the green baize apron following at his heels.

From further back, through an open doorway, a girl's voice was shrieking for the police over the phone.

The distant puffing of fire engines, the shrieking of river sirens, accentuate my loneliness.

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On this page you'll find 4 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shrieking, such as: piercing, sharp, and shrill.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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