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

It’s an inspired bit of marketing for a series that found the sweet spot between comedy and horror, making us shriek with laughter and revulsion, sometimes simultaneously.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 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

Behind the guards, the crowd began to shriek and wail and shove their way toward the exits.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

"Celia shrieks strangely," read one, while another said: "They repeat the wail."

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2025

About an hour before tip‑off, Clark entered the arena to a wave of shrieks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025

Even over the loud, discordant music being performed by Cecil Sutter and the Miners, I heard her delighted shrieks as he spun the car around on the ice-coated road that ran down beside the church.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

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

Irate, the woman shrieked, shoved something in the holding cell toilet and started frantically flushing to flood the cell.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025

Unlike the former head matron, who shrieked and scolded endlessly in her rusted-hinge voice, this woman worked in a terrifying silence.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

But you wouldn’t want to make this determination based on the shrieking of the self-interested.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Yet the lizard brain making you gawk is shrieking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 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

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

From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025

The guinea pigs, who already had plenty of food, wouldn't stop shrieking until he gave them more.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville