Examples of banshee in a Sentence

I heard someone wailing like a banshee.

Recent Examples on the Web Docile until riled, Audi’s blistering banshee really gets up on its hind legs, capable of going toe-to-toe with just about anything made for real-world driving. — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 1 June 2022 Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O, who details her evolution from a shy Jersey girl playing acoustic guitar at open mic nights into a howling banshee flinging herself recklessly across club stages. — Andrew Barker, Variety, 24 Jan. 2022 This bluesy banshee sounded like no other white man in rock and roll. — James Wood, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022 This will break the spell of the banshee’s hold and allow the people to emerge from a victim mindset. — Thomas Lim, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021 On Sunday, the airfield was a site of constant activity, with queues of dark-gray U.S. military transport aircraft and the banshee scream of Qatari Air Force Rafale jets streaking into the distance. — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2021 She was accused of hitching her star to a white man, John Lennon, and of breaking up the Beatles — and, by proxy, undermining pop as a whole, its giddy sanctity endangered by this wailing banshee. — New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021 It's rated at 195 horsepower, and that power comes at a banshee-screaming 8000 rpm—just 400 rpm short of the redline. — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 12 May 2021 But Walter resisted the reflex to play Evelyn as a B-movie banshee, or a pathetic patsy of the feminist movement the film caricatures so floridly. — Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2021 See More

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