Complain, informally

Usage examples of squawk.

There was no movement among the coarse marram grass that grew thick and sturdy amongst the rocks on the beach, and the only sound above the waves was the hoarse squawking of the seabirds, intent upon finding their dinner.

As the barrel of the pistol rose towards her, Deb made a small and breathy noise, not a scream but saturated in fear, and Wimbarton let out a squawk, propelling the mountebank across the room with an almighty shove.

Animal fury and orgiastic license here whipped themselves to daemoniac heights by howls and squawking ecstacies that tore and reverberated through those nighted woods like pestilential tempests from the gulfs of hell.

Just then a parakeet squawked, making my brother jump, and he closed the box, tucked it under his arm, and carried it downstairs to Desdemona.

Three enormous black crows came down upon the wires, thud, opened their beaks in a parodic squawk: Caw!

But she saw only darkness and flecks of moonlight among the trees, and heard only their own footfalls, the squawk and chirp of night birds, the papery sounds of the piny limbs stirred by breezes and sometimes quiet, skittery sounds of small animals scurrying nearby.

Bluebottle is now scribbling poetry, squawking his inanities and laughing at the badly drawn cartoons he is scratching on our one and only map.

The new High Septon would doubtless wring his holy hands, and the Braavosi would squeak and squawk at her.

In the near distance there was the sound of squawking ducks, the dull thunder of many pairs of wings rapidly taking flight.

I reasoned that if there was, he would be squawking or jumping about or endeavoring in some way to warn me.

Cicero who did the squawking, the horrified trumpeting, the agitated flapping.

Others in the square shouted out obscenities from behind darkened windows like a hostile audience from behind the footlights, even threatening to bring the police, and he screamed back at them, calling them all a lot of bloody assassins and murderers, shrieking and squawking in an altogether undignified manner unfortunately, overtaken momentarily by a fit of blind fear and rage.

Kate could hear the cries and wailings squawking out of the receiver, and it unnerved her.

Henrietta Hen came fluttering down from the haymow, squawking at the top of her lungs for old Whitey.

If he should catch a glimmer of light, it would destroy his sleep and then the squawking would never go away and then he would be awake.