Many athletes grunt, but these too screech or scream.
The screech was the kind that curls the teeth and curdles the blood.
Some editors would screech and yelp when they got excited about a manuscript.
Another will screech when a vehicle approaches too fast from the side.
There's a horrible, fingernails-on-chalkboard screech every time the vehicle comes to a stop.
It is to the office what the blue jay's screech is to the garden.
Toucans screech from low branches, and monkeys leap from tree to tree.
To ban a book- even a violent how-to makes my mind screech in response.
But there was no burned-rubber screech of tires on asphalt.
If you looked as stunning as that, you'd have the right to screech around as much as you wanted to as well.
British Dictionary definitions for screech
screech1
/skriːtʃ/
noun
1.
a shrill, harsh, or high-pitched sound or cry
verb
2.
to utter with or produce a screech
Derived Forms
screecher, noun
Word Origin
C16: variant of earlier scritch, of imitative origin
screech2
/skriːtʃ/
noun (Canadian)
1.
(esp in Newfoundland) a dark rum
Word Origin
perhaps special use of screech1
Word Origin and History for screech
v.
1570s, alteration of scritch (mid-13c., schrichen), possibly of imitative origin (cf. shriek). Related: Screeched; screeching. Screech-owl is attested from 1590s (scritch-owl is from 1520s).
n.
1550s, from screech (v.). Earlier scritch (1510s).