scream
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After listening to the recording, Carl feels he has no choice but to bring it to Department Q: “He couldn’t get the woman’s scream out of his head.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Alex Srour told CBS 8 that he was riding his bike on the boardwalk when he heard someone scream, “Watch out.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
So on Friday, the headline will scream energy and the core will whisper calm.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
Yes, Sazan is covered in unexploded land mines, a feature that, like the waterlessness and lack of electricity, doesn’t scream “luxury tourist development.”
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Stentor and Siren were just about to make the turn onto Hog Scald Road when there came a terrible banshee scream.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
In a fat suit, with facial prosthetics and an outfit that screams “No. 5 country-and-western musical star of 1975,” Mr. Cruise tries far too hard to be funny.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Perhaps no one genre of music screams “Mexican” more than mariachi music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
She recounts being jerked from sleep by the screams of alarms when First Light is becalmed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
There's a ripple of laughter during We Can't Be Friends, meanwhile, when a tiny cluster of the audience screams over the "silence challenge", external that's become a meme during the tour's American leg.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The anger boils from his insides and out his throat in long, loud screams.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
As the sirens screamed again at the central market in Boryspil, Dmyterko pushed her own shopping trolley without looking up.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
She said nothing about his age, but instead screamed, “Allie! He’s the ‘Top That’ guy!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
“Take the money, Sly!” the smart half of my brain screamed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
“FREE TICKETS,” screamed a text message sent out to people on a RNC donor list.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
The children screamed, half of them shouting for the boy to do it, the other half pleading for him to stop.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
In that MLB advertisement, the one that featured Ohtani, the league acknowledged that its screaming headline was not exactly accurate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
"There was a woman, she was screaming for help to get her out of the rubble. She was having trouble breathing and told us that there are more people over there," the 30-year-old told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Trying to open a can of sardines could’ve gravely injured them had the twins not gotten into a screaming match in the process.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Half-way through the rehearsal, a group of screaming girls tried to climb the garden wall.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
I need to write what I want them to read, not what fear is screaming inside my head.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
