shriek

Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce was being interviewed on national broadcaster ABC on Monday night when he interrupted the one-on-one to shriek "sit down!"

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

As a group of men force their way past us, a sudden shriek of noise and gust of air stops Joshua in his tracks.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

She sang open-throated declarations, recited broken poetic verses, scatted with the authority of a jazz singer, moaned with bluesy intent, and occasionally let loose an unbridled shriek or giggle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026

Children shriek with delight from the new playground at the Palisades Recreation Center.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025

When it rains in New York, rich people’s dogs wear miniature raincoats and plastic slippers that pinch their paws, and kids giggle and shriek and splash in the puddles.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

Some routinely put on a show: NYC0318, a whale also seen by AFP on a recent outing, often charms whale watchers with sensational lunge-feeds, breaching the water and prompting shrieks of delight.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

It’s one of those Los Angeles gas stations that garners gasps, even shrieks, from Angelenos shocked by the cost per gallon, which is perpetually priced above other pumps across the city.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

When the congregation responds with rhythmic panting that slowly builds to shrieks of grief and passion, Ann finally feels at home — the burdens she’s been carrying all her life, cast into the ether.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025

They finished a roughly $3,000 project to add french doors to their living room to create an office space insulated from the shrieks of their almost-2-year-old.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025

Shouts and shrieks go up as a pitch-black puddle slinks across the floor to the center of the room.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

I normally think about what could go wrong, and I’ve cried out that we’re heading toward a dystopia more times than Chicken Little shrieked about the sky falling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

"How do you think I feel?... He set me up," he shrieked.

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026

At the second smaller stage, dancers shrieked as confetti cannons fired simultaneously with a bass drop, glitter falling like shimmering rain.

From Barron's ● Nov. 23, 2025

As one plane after another shrieked across the cloudless sky, jet-shaped shadows raced across the pavement, alongside cars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2025

He shook his head and shrieked and clawed and hissed, but he was blind, so he couldn’t see us.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

She watched intently perched on a bench at the very front of the room, at times shrieking and nudging her sister as she pointed at the cafe’s new large flat-screen that loomed overhead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

The second pilot meets their passengers’ fear with hysteria, shrieking, outburst—that pilot shames their passengers, saying, “I can’t do my job because of YOU.”

From Slate ● May 10, 2026

Meanwhile his sound team keeps turning up the volume to 12, delivering shrieking, insistent layers of audio effects that are more annoying than scary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

I’ll pause here for general gasping and shrieking, and murmurs of, “Wait, there’s a dividend?”

From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025

People are shrieking “Rat! Rat!” and “Get it out of here!” and things like that.

From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins