What is "shrieks"

Usage examples of "shrieks".

Beyond the beat come other, fainter cries: the shrieks of lunatics, the shouts and scolds of nurses.

Their one surviving plasma rifle walked its fire across the slope, painting the pre-dawn dark with brief, terrible sunrises, and he could hear the shrieks of wounded and dying pirates even through the thunder of battle as the wave of attackers shredded under that savage pounding.

She heard it first as a rumble, a crackling thrumming roar that obliterated distant shrieks and warning calls.

The fuller seemed ready to go on at length, but shrieks erupted from the yard, followed by angry voices.

She shrieks anger, an expression that on her face looks so startlingly wrong that it takes a moment for Liath to realize how much younger Anne is, here in the past.

The infant shrieks outrage, but another centaur moves forward and, with a deft swoop, places the screaming infant at a breast.

Behind him came his soldiers, their mouths open in shrieks and howls Liath could only see, not hear.

Cruel laughter turned into shrieks of terror, and instead of wine gurgling, it was blood.

The air was filled with shrieks, wailing, the chop of weapons, the crushing collapse of stone and the suffocating smoke.

Wild-haired, loosing random shrieks, there was an aura of madness and dark horror about them.

The shrieks of the ghosts from the mists of Glenco Ring in his ears through the caves of perdition!

A great floundering racket was going on above, mingled with growls and shrieks, but there was no howling.