shriek

Example Sentences

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

From Barron's

For the finale, she peeled away the onesie to bare pasties emblazoned with blue-sequined biohazard symbols, drawing the upper registers of shrieking adulation.

From Los Angeles Times

There is a quiet crisis underway in education that could grow into a shriek over the next decade unless the state does more to connect young people with living-wage jobs after high school.

From Seattle Times

Resounding with the familiar grunts, sighs and orgasmic shrieks of the residents of a thin-walled apartment building as they go about their daily lives, this primary-colored charmer delivers a timely plea for tolerance.

From New York Times

For now, hopes and dreams live in shrieks and claps and chants for women who have earned that, and much more.

From Los Angeles Times