Shrieked is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Shrieked meaning
simple past and past participle of shriek
Using Shrieked
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of shriek
- In the example corpus, shrieked often appears in combinations such as: she shrieked, shrieked in, shrieked at.
Context around Shrieked
- Average sentence length in these examples: 17.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 6 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 1 questions, 2 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shrieked
- In this selection, "shrieked" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 17.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, petunia, penny, osaka, see and hysterically stand out and add context to how "shrieked" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a bed shrieked hysterically then and as she shrieked in pain. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shrieked" sits close to words such as aat, abhorrence and abms, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shrieked
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
She shrieked: ‘See, I told you! (6 words)
The passenger shrieked: “What are you doing? (7 words)
I SHRIEKED when Mirai hit that triple axel. (8 words)
Osaka shrieked with joy as she took her second match point, then calmly lay on the court and stared at the New York sky as she contemplated her latest achievement. (30 words)
Around midnight, the visitors witnessed the dancing shimmer of a scantily dressed girl who suddenly arose from the reeds, jumped on a bed, shrieked hysterically, then disappeared just as quickly. (30 words)
The shape makes the transparent PVC canopy necessary – and our four-year-old tester shrieked with joy at the prospect of having something see-through “like magic”. (27 words)
The passenger shrieked: “What are you doing? (7 words)
She shrieked: ‘See, I told you! (6 words)
Then one day I looked down at the floury rolling pin in my hands and shrieked, “Oh my word, Michael! (20 words)
Example sentences (14)
As she shrieked in pain, he started pummelling her naked body.
While Petunia shrieked at Lily's magical abilities, she longingly asked her sister how she managed to do it.
Once the girls arrived home from school, Penny shrieked at May that she’d destroyed everything.
I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat; whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris’s bowie knife plunged into the heart.
Osaka shrieked with joy as she took her second match point, then calmly lay on the court and stared at the New York sky as she contemplated her latest achievement.
The elderly man and his daughter shrieked when they noticed the snake’s dark grey scales shimming in the light.
The passenger shrieked: “What are you doing?
The shape makes the transparent PVC canopy necessary – and our four-year-old tester shrieked with joy at the prospect of having something see-through “like magic”.
The little girl shrieked and received a slap across the face.
During a break in her class, a young child shrieked in the back of the room.
I SHRIEKED when Mirai hit that triple axel.
She shrieked: ‘See, I told you!
Then one day I looked down at the floury rolling pin in my hands and shrieked, “Oh my word, Michael!
Around midnight, the visitors witnessed the dancing shimmer of a scantily dressed girl who suddenly arose from the reeds, jumped on a bed, shrieked hysterically, then disappeared just as quickly.
Common combinations with shrieked
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- she shrieked 2×
- shrieked in 2×
- shrieked at 2×
- shrieked with 2×
- shrieked when 2×