noun
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A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.
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An exclamation mark.
verb
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To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.
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To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.
Examples of shrieks in a Sentence
Yells and shrieks of laughter rose from the whole regiment.
Then, these near silent sobs would have turned to shrieks of anguish while I made the young beauty my own.
The shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror almost inconceivable.
The hebdomadal transformation being once, contrary to compact, witnessed by her husband, she left him with much wailing, and was said to return and give warning by her appearance and great shrieks whenever one of the race of Lusignan was about to die.
So may the Devil I Respite their souls from Heaven!"; Hellas, 657, "Bask in the [deep] blue noon divine"; Julian and Maddalo, 218, where "Moans, shrieks, and curses, and blaspheming prayers" is absent in the earlier editions though required for the rhyme; so lines 299-301 of the Letter to Maria Gisborne.
In his brazen bull, invented, it is said, by Perillus of Athens, the tyrant's victims were shut up and, a fire being kindled beneath, were roasted alive, while their shrieks represented the bellowing of the bull.
Instead, she was greeted by shrieks from Martha and Gladys, causing her to drop the poor creature and flee in terror, stark contrast to her anticipated moment of glory.
Kate shrieks at him and calls him a " sanctimonious cretin " .
Be prepared for blood curdling shrieks and shocking denouements.
Does a blue-crowned motmot or a violaceous euphonia really want to hear strange instrumental shrieks before breakfast?
He was a walking bubble and emitting piercing shrieks.
Soon they heard shrieks of terror, which made the blood run cold in their veins.
Everywhere she looked, sickly colors bounced from bubbling test tubes, and dark corners gave suspect shrieks.
Prince Andrew rode up and was just putting his question to a soldier when his attention was diverted by the desperate shrieks of the woman in the vehicle.
The cart was loaded high, and at the very top, beside a child's chair with its legs in the air, sat a peasant woman uttering piercing and desperate shrieks.
He was told by his fellow officers that the screams of the crowd and the shrieks of the woman were due to the fact that General Ermolov, coming up to the crowd and learning that soldiers were dispersing among the shops while crowds of civilians blocked the bridge, had ordered two guns to be unlimbered and made a show of firing at the bridge.
Judging from their shrieks of laughter they were all clearly having the time of their lives.
The next morning he awoke to his wife's shrieks of terror.
He longed to get into that water, however dirty it might be, and he glanced round at the pool from whence came sounds of shrieks and laughter.