Sentence examples for shrieked from inspiring English sources

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'shrieked' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to emphasize the volume of someone's voice, usually when they are in a heightened emotional state. For example, "The little girl shrieked as she saw the spider on her bedroom wall."

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shrieked

verb

Past of shriek

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"Why?!" Carey shrieked, gesturing for her to leave.

It would, he shrieked, get people to start selling, shopping and hiring.

He had called her husband "a biological insult"; as she struck him, she shrieked, "it's you that is the biological insult!"Such scenes might suggest that Serbia's special court for organised crime and war crimes is a joke.

That may be why commentators tend to paint the disputes in an almost apocalyptic light: "The South China Sea is the Future of Conflict" shrieked an article last September in Foreign Policy, an American journal.

"A strong franc threatens the entire Swiss system," shrieked one Geneva daily.The bank's action was "a tsunami" for exporters, tourism and "the entire country", protested Nick Hayek, chief executive of Swatch Group, the world's biggest watchmaker, as he saw its shares plunge by 16% in a day.

But the biggest cheers from his backbenchers came when Mr Cameron briefly mislaid a note, when one of their own shrieked "Hear!

IT TOOK forever, endangered the financial system and, some shrieked, even threatened the global economy.

"Immortals" shrieked the Mirror.But while Manchester United's victory will undoubtedly swell their army of fans, it will also swell the growing band of United haters.

"You flattened Chechnya and now you want to do the same to Georgia," she shrieked.

Upon catching them out as flip-floppers, the AL shrieked that the BNP were "enemies of the nation" in so far as they had sought to harm the garment industry.In choosing this line of attack, the AL revealed an alarming degree of forgetfulness.

Suddenly, a raven-haired young woman pointed at the screen and shrieked: "There's my tank!

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