SCREECH in a Sentence

Learn SCREECH from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
27 example sentences for SCREECH, such as:
1. The gate screeched as it opened.
2. The child screeched insults at us.
3. The youth desired to screech out his grief.
4. He heard a screech of brakes and then fell down.
5. The screech of the chalk on the blackboard made her wince.
Search Quotes from Classic Book
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
 Input your word:
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of SCREECH
screech
 v.  utter a harsh abrupt scream
 v.  make a high-pitched, screeching noise
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  His father's whistle, his mother's mutterings, the screech of an unseen maniac were to him now so many voices offending and threatening to humble the pride of his youth.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
2  The Thing in the coffin writhed; and a hideous, blood-curdling screech came from the opened red lips.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
3  With one hand I felt above my head for the line of the steam-whistle, and jerked out screech after screech hurriedly.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
4  One good screech will do more for you than all your rifles.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
5  At the sudden screech there was a movement of abject terror through that wedged mass of bodies.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
6  At last, far up the road, she heard the protesting screech of unoiled axles and the slow uncertain plodding of hooves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
7  Upstairs she could hear heavy boots trampling, the protesting screech of furniture pulled across the floor, the crashing of china and mirrors, the curses when nothing of value appeared.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  The youth desired to screech out his grief.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
9  A dismal screech, as of mere animal terror, rang from the cabinet.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
10  At this moment the fiddles finished off with a screech, and the serpent emitted a last note that nearly lifted the roof.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight
11  We hadn't been hard at it for more than a minute when a most terrible screech sounded through church, as if somebody had just gied up their heart's blood.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
12  not omitting a single comma, and making the paper screech under his pen.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
13  The lane behind the terrace was waterlogged and as he went down it slowly, choosing his steps amid heaps of wet rubbish, he heard a mad nun screeching in the nuns' madhouse beyond the wall.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
14  I could not have endured the horrid screeching as the stake drove home; the plunging of writhing form, and lips of bloody foam.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  Under the efforts of both men the lid began to yield; the nails drew with a quick screeching sound, and the top of the box was thrown back.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
Example Sentence:
1  He heard a screech of brakes and then fell down.
2  The screech of the chalk on the blackboard made her wince.
3  The gate screeched as it opened.
4  The child screeched insults at us.
5  He had squirmed and wriggled and screeched when his father had washed his face.