Sentence examples for screech from inspiring English sources

Their pupils became big as a screech owl's; their noses stretched into elongated probosces; their mouths expanded like bell bottoms.

They won 2-1 at Espanyol last weekend but had been beaten in Málaga the Monday before, prompting Super Deporte to screech "Where are Valencia?" Now they were drawing 0-0 with Getafe at half-time.

AGAINST the ear-piercing screech of the global economy hitting the brakes, what sounded like a piece of good news could still be heard this week.

He is physically distant, too, confessing he has "barely crossed the threshold of a private residence in Dubai".[p 10] He longs "for the experience of being made welcome by a family in its domain"[p 149], but considers himself toxic: "I'm like those thin-skinned smoke detectors that screech at the presence of the slightest cooking fume, and if life is to go on, must be shut down"[p 157].

Mr Dean's bid for New Hampshire was not helped by his over-the-top concession speech in Iowa, which included an unholy screech that was promptly ridiculed and set to music around the country.A kinder, gentler Mr Dean subsequently emerged and managed to stop his support from haemorrhaging altogether.

Debate moves instead to the evening television shows, where party spokesmen screech allegations at each other.And so parliament is on course for a new record in sitting the fewest number of days.

TURKISH F-16 fighter jets screech across the skies.

Ministers screech around the capital, Kinshasa, in gleaming motorcades, while the roads remain cavernous and civil servants wait longingly for their salaries.Mr Ruberwa was the vice-president in charge of defence and security, but the president, Joseph Kabila, saw to it that he wielded little of the power of his portfolio.

A military parade is held on the Champs Elysées, and fighter jets, blazing a trail of red, white and blue, screech low over Paris.

With the screech of packing tape run off the reel, polystyrene boxes of shellfish are sealed and piled high on to the back of motorised rickshaws.

This weekend, as on every July 4th, they will show their faith by the millions as they variously sing and screech their way through Francis Scott Key's "The Star Spangled Banner".But what exactly does this profession of faith mean?