screech

Overhead, airplanes screech across a fat blue sky in a hurry to who knows where.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

In fact, any birder will tell you that the sky-rending screech that accompanies bald eagles in most media depictions actually belongs to a red-tailed hawk.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026

Pareja then saw the housing market screech to a halt during the Great Recession, a crisis in which subprime mortgages were a central cause.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2025

"He was very, very loud when he first arrived – it was like a strong screech," she said.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2025

Ivy’s voice raised to a screech and Taryn flinched.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

During the chorus, harmonica borrowed from Stevie Wonder’s “That Girl” screeches into view, but the brightness only serves to accent the desolation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

I know of a nurse in San Francisco who screeches her car to a stop when she spots a person in bodily distress and administers CPR if appropriate.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026

As one locomotive screeches into the old El-Raml Station, commuters and visitors crane their necks out of giant windows at the historic neo-Venetian buildings overhead.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

A few distant screeches of brooms on cobblestone, that’s all.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

The train jolts and scrapes and screeches back into motion, the little pile of clothes disappears from view and we trundle on towards London, moving at a brisk jogger’s pace.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

In Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, a once-thriving business of trading car parts from far-flung places has screeched to a halt due to conflicts at the country's borders.

From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026

Live events screeched to a halt during the Covid-19 pandemic but bounced back coming out of it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

In the 1970s, she observed a stratification between groups of chimpanzees at a national park in Tanzania, with increasing aggression as males screeched and threw objects.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

The “Eras” tour’s enormous success screeched to a halt this weekend in Brazil when a fan died in the crowd.

From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2023

Metal groaned and screeched as the whole massive station broke apart.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

The kitchen sinks aren’t working, and the plumbing is simultaneously screeching and groaning.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

Apple stock fell on Thursday after the tech giant jacked up prices on its MacBooks and iPads, increasing worries that its comeback year could be screeching to a halt.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

The idea to launch a podcast began during the pandemic, when touring — and the world — came to a screeching halt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026

The parallels to contemporary American culture are obvious if not literal, but Ms. Ziegler is too gifted a playwright to shrink a nuanced tragedy into a screeching protest sign.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

The sounds cycled, screeching and screaming so loud that Cat couldn’t hear anything else.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn