screech

Example Sentences

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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

Life doesn’t screech to a halt after a Pollyanna rom-com ending, just like love isn’t cast in amber, destined to be preserved forever.

From Salon • Jun. 14, 2025

The screech of truck brakes was particularly torturous, they said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2025

Maybe night noises scared them—the barking of foxes, the shrill screech of owls, the rustle of unseen deer in the woods.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn