Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: shrieking
IPA transcription: [ʃɹ'ikɪŋ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: scream, screaming, shriek, shrieking, screech, screeching
    Meaning: sharp piercing cry; "her screaming attracted the neighbors"
Usage examples
  • He was scarce over the great high hills when he heard the shrieking of a human child.
  • Having done so they go on their way, shrieking out their loose songs and dancing immodest dances.
  • Instantly the beautiful slave dropped the golden basin upon the stone floor, and began shrieking and tearing her clothes.
  • The birds hold them at all sorts of angles in their beak, and fly away with them, shrieking and screaming, pursued by their fellows.
  • Bernice, even while shrieking the battle-cry, leaped to her feet, hurled her chair, and reached for another; but one chair was enough.
  • Twice we heard unseen creatures howling and shrieking past our little band, and once the little pink sloth-creature appeared and stared at us, and vanished again. But we were not attacked again.
  • And with these six creatures guiding us, we went through the tumult of ferns and creepers and tree-stems towards the northwest. Then came a yelling, a crashing among the branches, and a little pink homunculus rushed by us shrieking.
  • Some seaweed floating by the brig, he maintained that it was the ship's boat, and endeavoured to throw himself upon it, howling and shrieking in the most heartrending manner, when I forcibly restrained him from thus casting himself into the sea.