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词汇 shrieking
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Definition of shrieking in English:

shrieking

adjective ˈʃriːkɪŋˈʃrikɪŋ
  • Making a high-pitched piercing cry or sound.

    shrieking winds
    a shrieking ambulance
    shrieking hyenas
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Many on the left have reacted to him and his fellow evolutionists like a troop of shrieking baboons.
    • He is frightened by the shrieking noises the tree makes at night.
    • It spans musical emotions from the jagged shrieking solos of the sorceress to the seductive siren songs of the maidens.
    • Several witnesses swore our newlyweds had a sustained ashrieking argument just before the unspeakable happened.
    • Here is a business that has shrieking fanatics lining up around the block in the middle of the night to buy its product.
    • There are about 200 excited, shrieking tots racing around.
    • That lovely, silky, shrieking voice was pretty dreamy.
    • Enter the oddly tiny, shrieking creatures with lasers strapped to their heads.
    • They can talk quietly, knowing that they won't be drowned out by an army of shrieking teenyboppers.
    • They glamorize death as an abstract expression of powder bursts and shrieking projectiles.
noun ˈʃriːkɪŋˈʃrikɪŋ
mass noun
  • High-pitched piercing cries or sounds.

    there is shrieking and yelling from both men and women
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This pronouncement was followed by further shrieking.
    • If she had to listen to a minute more of their mindless chatter juxtaposed with Evie's ear-splitting shrieking, she might go mad.
    • When the uproar finally died down, Eric heard the shrieking coming from the vent.
    • I stopped the incessant shrieking and put the phone to my ear.
    • Just as we'd all left the movie set, the distant sound of shrieking became audible.
    • I scared her society friends by dropping from the ceiling onto her lap, and you never heard so much shrieking in your life.
    • I would say it was more like panicked shrieking.
    • No loud shrieking filled her ears, and so she continued.
    • They huddled in their bathtub while their home crumbled around them in fierce winds that made a sound like shrieking.
    • It can be heard in advance by loud shrieking, and may run around your legs with ropes and topple you.

Derivatives

  • shriekingly

  • adverbˈʃriːkɪŋliˈʃrikɪŋli
    • Now, if only I could pray away the shriekingly drunk platinum blonde 50-something ladies across the aisle.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The usual suspects have swarmed back into the spotlight to shriekingly insist that the most subtle linguistic distinctions be accorded paramount importance.
      • I do it to get shriekingly frightened because that makes me very excited and produces all sorts of fun chemicals.
      • He's proven himself too shriekingly partisan to be trusted again.
      • The main source of his claim appears to be an article which is a fairly transparent, shriekingly anti-left, smear campaign.

Definition of shrieking in US English:

shrieking

adjectiveˈʃrikɪŋˈSHrēkiNG
  • Making a high-pitched piercing cry or sound.

    shrieking winds
    a shrieking ambulance
    shrieking hyenas
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They can talk quietly, knowing that they won't be drowned out by an army of shrieking teenyboppers.
    • He is frightened by the shrieking noises the tree makes at night.
    • Many on the left have reacted to him and his fellow evolutionists like a troop of shrieking baboons.
    • Enter the oddly tiny, shrieking creatures with lasers strapped to their heads.
    • They glamorize death as an abstract expression of powder bursts and shrieking projectiles.
    • There are about 200 excited, shrieking tots racing around.
    • Here is a business that has shrieking fanatics lining up around the block in the middle of the night to buy its product.
    • That lovely, silky, shrieking voice was pretty dreamy.
    • Several witnesses swore our newlyweds had a sustained ashrieking argument just before the unspeakable happened.
    • It spans musical emotions from the jagged shrieking solos of the sorceress to the seductive siren songs of the maidens.
nounˈʃrikɪŋˈSHrēkiNG
  • High-pitched piercing cries or sounds.

    there is shrieking and yelling from both men and women
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It can be heard in advance by loud shrieking, and may run around your legs with ropes and topple you.
    • No loud shrieking filled her ears, and so she continued.
    • Just as we'd all left the movie set, the distant sound of shrieking became audible.
    • This pronouncement was followed by further shrieking.
    • I stopped the incessant shrieking and put the phone to my ear.
    • I would say it was more like panicked shrieking.
    • I scared her society friends by dropping from the ceiling onto her lap, and you never heard so much shrieking in your life.
    • They huddled in their bathtub while their home crumbled around them in fierce winds that made a sound like shrieking.
    • If she had to listen to a minute more of their mindless chatter juxtaposed with Evie's ear-splitting shrieking, she might go mad.
    • When the uproar finally died down, Eric heard the shrieking coming from the vent.
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