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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
screech .
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Examples
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The train screeched and rocked and reeled, and the engineer let loose with the horn.
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The train screeched and rocked and reeled, and the engineer let loose with the horn.
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The train screeched and rocked and reeled, and the engineer let loose with the horn.
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Charlie was driving and without a word he screeched the car to a dead stop right in front of her.
Full Frontal Nudity Harry Hamlin 2010
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As he pulled it down the Sword screeched in his hand.
The King of Ireland's Son Padraic Colum 1926
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For the second time that night, we screeched to a halt, got buzzed in -- twice -- inner and outer doors, and sprinted into the reception by which time Bailey was once again, and quite mysteriously, symptom-free.
Kim Carillo: A Labrador Too Fat to Fly to New York? Kim Carillo 2011
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For the second time that night, we screeched to a halt, got buzzed in -- twice -- inner and outer doors, and sprinted into the reception by which time Bailey was once again, and quite mysteriously, symptom-free.
Kim Carillo: A Labrador Too Fat to Fly to New York? Kim Carillo 2011
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For the second time that night, we screeched to a halt, got buzzed in -- twice -- inner and outer doors, and sprinted into the reception by which time Bailey was once again, and quite mysteriously, symptom-free.
Kim Carillo: A Labrador Too Fat to Fly to New York? Kim Carillo 2011
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And screeched like the oft quoted Raven, “Nevermore!”
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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And as is usually the case with creative-coaching-type books, I found immediate inspiration, and also screeched to an immediate halt on the first exercise.
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