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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of shriek.

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  • adjective uttered in a shrill scream as of pain or terror

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Examples

  • Rusty, upon hearing his name shrieked by a giddy mom that would be me, looked up and obliged us with a smile.

    Chicken Soup for The Soul : Moms & Sons Jack Canfield 2008

  • Rusty, upon hearing his name shrieked by a giddy mom that would be me, looked up and obliged us with a smile.

    Chicken Soup for The Soul : Moms & Sons Jack Canfield 2008

  • Sir Vindex — nose, spectacles, gown, and all; and in his hand a brandished rod, while out of his mouth a label shrieked after the runaways, “You come back!” while a similar label replied from the gallant bark, “Good-bye, master!” the shoving and tittering rose to such a pitch that Cerberus awoke, and demanded sternly what the noise was about.

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • Vindex -- nose, spectacles, gown, and all; and in his hand a brandished rod, while out of his mouth a label shrieked after the runaways,

    Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847

  • Tyee shook him till he shrieked from the pain of his hurts.

    THE SUNLANDERS 2010

  • A sudden cry from her and his name shrieked out wildly made him turn in alarm.

    The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly

  • Then all at once he landed all-fours on a cart before the flaming stack, greeted by fishhorns and rattles, his name shrieked out in a wild acclaim.

    The Varmint Owen Johnson 1915

  • The sound of his name shrieked in a woman's voice.

    The Forfeit Ridgwell Cullum 1905

  • Tyee shook him till he shrieked from the pain of his hurts.

    The Sunlanders 1902

  • What if I should see horrible things in my future, things I could not prevent or delay – sickness, slow and painful death, our family’s home spouting with white fire while tethered animals shrieked from the barn and my brothers sobbed and hid in the house?

    Broken Places « A Fly in Amber 2008

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