screamer
Example Sentences
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Antoine Semenyo nets twice and Justin Kluivert scores a screamer as Bournemouth come from behind to beat Fulham in stormy conditions and move up to second in the Premier League table.
From BBC • Oct. 3, 2025
Spare a thought for 21-year-old Phoebe Litchfield, who had taken a screamer of her own just a few overs earlier, but her back-tracking, full-stretch dive to dismiss Danni Wyatt-Hodge was almost completely overshadowed.
From BBC • Jan. 17, 2025
The mountain lion is known by more than 40 different common names, including puma, cougar, panther, red tiger, catamount and screamer, according to the state agency.
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2024
Particularly during the double shot of “No Bystanders” and fire-canons-blasting screamer “Fe!n” that had the crowd bouncing hard enough to throw the earth off its axis.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2023
Well, Little Arliss was a screamer by nature.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
