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Examples

  • Gritting teeth for anger, showing all of your teeth for extreme joy, and closing top to bottom for a classic “eek!” when alarmed.

    Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005

  • She’d screamed an extremely clichéd “eek!” and jumped up on one of the kitchen chairs with the telephone in her hand and the baby in her arms, and stayed there, terrified, until Richard came running up the stairs to their third-floor apartment.

    Fly Away Home Jennifer Weiner 2010

  • She’d screamed an extremely clichéd “eek!” and jumped up on one of the kitchen chairs with the telephone in her hand and the baby in her arms, and stayed there, terrified, until Richard came running up the stairs to their third-floor apartment.

    Fly Away Home Jennifer Weiner 2010

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  • the cat, that is

    March 3, 2007