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Over the course of the album, Harvey sings, hums, purrs, croons, squeals, dictates, shrieks, and whispers her lyrics to remarkable effect.
There were huge grins and shrieks of delight as they ran through the sprinklers, chasing each other with squirt guns and water balloons.
A tall tech with spindly legs and oversized glasses shrieks as he starts to pick up the poor damaged piece of gadgetry like it's his own child.
O'Neill's own photograph on the flyleaf of the book shrieks gravitas, but in real life he's a charmer.
He shrieks where he should argue, and hurls vulgar epithets in my direction.
I make a move like I'm going to start running after him and he shrieks slightly before legging it out the door.
So, along with chemical signals and higher range trumpeting and shrieks, elephants have an extensive range of communication.
Our shrieks and raucous laughter ring out across the empty mountain but there is no-one to disturb apart from the chamois and bouquetin goats.
As more and more woke up, a rising chorus of shrieks for help shook hoarfrost from the vaulted stones, and eventually called help.
We're quite expert at it, so the complaining shrieks and wails she utters are nothing to do with pain.
There was an immediate cacophony of hoots, bellows, screams, shrieks and roars.
Suddenly, he heard voices screaming in terror, horrible shrieks emitting from the front grounds.
She shrieks at her sons, who berate her for not supporting the father, she weeps bitterly, tries to calm them.
A prisoner at the Kholodnaya Gora prison had to stuff his ears with bread before sleeping on account of the shrieks of women being interrogated.
He throws his hands to the air and thanks the Lord, in between shrieks of joy and backslapping from his friends.
Sometimes shrieks screeched out in the darkness, incoherent and primally frightened.
At night she would wake up with nightmares and her shrieks were gut-wrenching.
It's more of an erratic growl which shrieks blue murder up towards 6000 revs and beyond.
It shrieks like a scarcely silenced racing car one minute and lopes like a limo the next.
He shrieks in terror at the sight of Gregor's new body and races away to inform the company of Gregor's new state.
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Examples from Classical Literature
She swam away in the bedlam of shrieks and clattering of dishes and knives.
Now and then when the Indian's sense of humour got the best of him he varied his Chinook Jargon with Wild shrieks of laughter.
The rooms, choke-full of misery, sent piercing shrieks and wails and groans out into the night.
She heard the shrieks and yips of the Indians in the yard of the trading post.
The screamer began to jabber like a maniac, punctuating his ravings with shrieks.
The upper part of the town had grown more calm, but from the seafront came frightful shrieks.
To the silence of a moment before had succeeded a babel of shrieks and hisses.
Then came shrieks, and the dull sound of the sjambok cutting soft human flesh.
Two of them, in this situation, brought forth their young with piercing shrieks, and groans most harrowingly human.
The horrid shrieks of the Chouette served to place the copestone on the fury of the Schoolmaster.
John had a whip in his hand, with which he lashed the water furiously, and uttered his eldritch shrieks.
The yells which accompanied it were hair-raising as the shrieks from a band of maniacs.
The boy heard the sound of something being whacked, along with bloodcurdling shrieks.
What went on there, Meg could not see, but shrieks of laughter were heard, followed by the murmur of voices and a great flapping of newspapers.
A muffled silence reigned, only broken at times by the shrieks of the storm.
She lowered her voice to inaudibility, she raised it to shrieks and wails.
They declared that now they knew the reason of those wild shrieks they had heard the night before.
No anesthetic had been administered and the shrieks and groans of the tortured man were terrible to hear.
The little audience of fierce anthropoids heard the creaking of their king's neck mingling with his agonized shrieks and hideous roaring.
This was understood to terminate the Course for the evening, and we emerged into the air with shrieks of intellectual victory.
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