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screech - use in sentences
Object
- tire: The sound is pretty realistic, with the engine, screeching tires and firing boost.
- vocal: Live, a whirlwind of aggressive guitar, screeched vocals and demented saxophone; a punk Van de Graaf Generator.
Converse of object
- hear: Behind him, he heard a car screech to a stop.
Adjective modifier
- loud: Sudden acceleration of a car, forward or backward causes a loud screech of the tires, even on dirt or wet roads.
- high: And soon the hall is filled with a high pitched screech.
- high-pitched: IN THIS WEEK'S LONDON BY LONDON... What's that high-pitched screech at Liverpool Street?
- shrill: Ansem's scream wasn't human, it was too high, and to Sora it was more like a shrill screech.
- pitched: And soon the hall is filled with a high pitched screech.
Modifies a noun
- owl: The barn owl is a familiar bird, famed for it rasping screech which accounts for its other name the ' screech owl ' .
- rocket: Atomic Pack Blue Moon's £ 3 pack of five screech rockets with a twist.
Modifying Another Word
- loudly: Chris went to her, so she screeched even more loudly, and woke SB - aargh!
- then: Then screeching from the giant speakers, comes a deafening guitar chord.
- away: I was calling to you, Daddy, as we screeched away into the dusty August air.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- out: Owls soar through the night sky, screeching out their presence.
- up: Silly pranks like that, or a Crusty screeching up in a battered white van with UN written on the side.
- off: As she watched them screech off, she caught the curious look Ricky shot her.
Preposition: of
- tire: Almost immediately, I heard the screech of tires on the side road.
- brake: Jermaine had the idea of bringing this to a halt with the screeching of brakes on his guitar.
- tire: The in-game sounds are reasonable tho, being a variety of bike noises, revving, screeching of tires and so on.
- metal: As the car impacted there was a deafening screech of metal on metal and the car flipped up onto it's side.
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