screech
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Overhead, airplanes screech across a fat blue sky in a hurry to who knows where.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Seagull imitators compete for best screech at sixth European championship.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 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
On occasion those offering a majority opinion screech like howler monkeys.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2025
Suddenly Lucky Ruiz arrived in his red car with a roar and a screech.
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
China’s own export-led recovery screeches to a halt if importing nations are in recession or depression thanks to the Hormuz shutdown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 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
Other than a couple of feedback screeches on the microphone, Yoakam and his band played a tight set.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2024
I was disgusted by the piles of dirty diapers, the snotty noses, and the screeches of children vying for any sort of attention.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Transport across the island, which was already reeling from the worst economic crisis in memory, has screeched to a near halt as petrol pumps run dry.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 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
“You’re always helping little beggars to our property!” screeched the other of them—the woman—as ornate gold pins in her hair shook.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
One of the site’s 36 pillars — the tallest one in the middle — could be a perch for a big, pink, screeching bird.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
The kitchen sinks aren’t working, and the plumbing is simultaneously screeching and groaning.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
The pandemic brought Airbnb’s growth to a screeching halt in early 2020 and caused $1 billion in cancellations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
As China hit back with tariffs of its own, the tit-for-tat exchange sent tariff rates spiralling into the triple digits and for a few weeks brought trade between the two giants to a screeching halt.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026
The birds wheeled above me, screeching, their powerful wings flapping.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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