Sentence examples for The eek from inspiring English sources
verb
To produce a high-pitched squeal, as in fear or trepidation.
TRYMAINE LEE Getting Out the Eek!
For organizations dependent on handouts or their own resources, the recession has put the "eek" back into eking out an existence.
And they deny having been strong austerity advocates – but they were happy to bask in the celebrity that came with their adoption as austerian mascots, and never to my knowledge spoke out to condemn all the "eek!
Marilyn Stasio, Variety: The eek! factor is largely missing from Misery, starring a laid-back Bruce Willis as the bed-bound author held hostage by his "greatest fan," played here by Laurie Metcalf.
Well, a significant number of people, well represented among those who tend to haunt comment boards, is firmly committed for whatever reason to the Eek! Zimbabwe! view of how the economy works, under which any government that has the temerity to deviate from gold-standard orthodoxy even in a deep slump is condemning its citizens to suffering the wrath of the market gods.
Receiving its English premiere in Jamie Lloyd's rumbustiously enjoyable production, the show pitches us Brits into the arcane alien rituals and anthropological bizarreries of the kind of tortuous, torturing contest for teenagers that seems designed to put the "eek!" in "geek".
As Frank Bruni wrote in The New York Times in 2007, New Yorkers "insist on restaurants with sidewalk cafes, apparently believing that nothing sauces roasted chicken like the exhaust from an M104 bus and there's no music more relaxing than the eek-eek-eek of a delivery truck in reverse".
By we I mean New Yorkers, and I specifically mean the New Yorkers who, from the first rumor of spring to the dying gasps of an Indian summer, insist on restaurants with sidewalk cafes, apparently believing that nothing sauces roasted chicken like the exhaust from an M104 bus and there's no music more relaxing than the eek-eek-eek of a delivery truck in reverse.
The eeks are just the beginning.
But the eeks make you trust her, in a strange way.
I have to say, the persistence of the inflationista, eek! deficits! view despite year after year of failure — and the amazing effort put into making excuses for year after year of failure — are a wonder to behold.
