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The word 'shrieking' is correct and usable in written English
It is the present participle form of the verb 'shriek', which means to make a loud, high-pitched cry or scream. Examples: - The children were shrieking with excitement as they rode the rollercoaster. - The sound of the car's tires screeching and the people shrieking filled the air. - He let out a shrieking laugh when he saw the hilarious meme. - The old woman was shrieking in terror when she saw the spider crawling on her arm.
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shrieking
noun
A sound that shrieks.
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We hired a sailing dinghy for an hour or two, shrieking and screaming at each other, and then pulled the launch on to a beach to doze for a while.
It had become so iconic among swaths of rightwingers that one man had even turned it into patriotic wallpaper, superimposing on to the wall behind Lindsey's shrieking face and upturned finger a picture of a military funeral, complete with a coffin draped in the American flag.
"I just started shrieking when I found out," says Montse.
Seconds later, I would hear my mom shrieking from the other end of the apartment.
I need 30," he sighs, as he wrestles with the cash register and passes the shrieking phone to a colleague.
At the end of a stay of aeons of time in Yama Pura, the Hindu Hell the oldest known, with its subdivisions of heated kettles, iron spikes and "dreadful shrieking"—or at the end of the Buddhist Hell, with its particular torments of scraping the heart and stuffing the skull with hedgehogs, the purged soul returns to Earth as an insect or a reptile, entering the cycle again.
Swarms of children, also brightly coloured against the ubiquitous yellow backdrop of mud and rock, run shrieking from the convoy.
They also allow for collective defence as anyone who has attempted to walk amid the shrieking calls and dive bombing of a colony of ground-nesting birds can attest.
Black and white children run shrieking together through a leafy playground.
Blessed with what he calls "a strong psychological digestive tract", he is not the sort of person to run shrieking from the room in horror, or to phone the police, when he finds out that someone confesses to relaxing by thinking about extreme sexual violence towards unsuspecting strangers.
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His old fans were appalled, but Davis was defiant, and his pop-inflected music and image struck an adulatory chord with a whole new generation.The trumpeter's edgy glamour became as significant as his music, setting teen crowds a-shrieking.
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