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- screeching·ly adverb
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Origin of screeching1
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Lindsey Graham can barely get ISIS out of his mouth before blowing his shpadoinkle and screeching "we may all get killed!"
The force that inspires defiant videos and top-of-their-lungs screeching tweens is, in fact, a media-shy 43-year old Swedish… man.
In his screeching desperation, it sounds far more like “You can tell her what I wanted to be.”
The progress Whitmire and the committee was making came to a screeching halt when George W. Bush became governor in 1995.
Given a screeching demagogue and an evenhanded, mild-mannered technocrat, people will always be more drawn to the former.
No screeching Indian was ever hit more fairly, surprised more suddenly, or extinguished more utterly.
The others danced sideways into the darkness, screeching, as though I had done them an injury.
I could hear the shells screeching through the air a second before they burst near where I lay.
Above the sound of the motor the screeching of the wounded bird still reached them faintly from the bottom of the cliff.
There seemed to be a great owl hooting from every hollow tree, and a little one screeching from every knothole.
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