screech

• A violent screech, a flapping of wings, and a sudden curse betrayed that the swans had been purloined for food. —  Sharpe's Siege
• But in the middle of our lesson the birds started to screech -- loudly. —  Mao's last dancer
• There's a screech, a nerve-wracking caterwauling, and Manni yells, bright parallel blood-tracks on his arm -- the avatar is a real fleshbody in its own right, with an autonomic control system that isn't going to give up without a fight, whatever its vastly larger exocortex thinks -- but Manni's scythe slashes, and there's a horrible bubbling noise and a spray of blood as the pussy-cat thing goes flying. —  Asimov's Science Fiction
• She heard an agonized screech, and knew that a hen had received a mortal stab. —  Unicorn Point
• Now and again Joyce recog - nized Uulobu's screech, the battle cry of his Avongo clan. —  Trader To The Stars

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