screeching
adjective
screech·ing
ˈskrē-chiŋ 
Examples of screeching in a Sentence
the screeching blast of the factory whistle hurt my ears
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By bringing the plant to a screeching halt, and interrupting the labor pipeline, costs will inevitably rise.
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Mary Ellen Klas, Twin Cities, 11 Sep. 2025
The bloody corridors are filled with screeching buzzsaws, slashing knives and earlier victims hanging on meat hooks.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
The first half of the season built up a lot of momentum and then came to a screeching halt.
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And when the pair brought the content mines to a screeching halt yesterday with a lunchtime Instagram post announcing their engagement, attention naturally turned to New Heights once again for a debrief, which came tucked into chatter about Kelce’s preseason prep.
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Mary Ellen Klas, Twin Cities, 11 Sep. 2025
The bloody corridors are filled with screeching buzzsaws, slashing knives and earlier victims hanging on meat hooks.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
The first half of the season built up a lot of momentum and then came to a screeching halt.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
And when the pair brought the content mines to a screeching halt yesterday with a lunchtime Instagram post announcing their engagement, attention naturally turned to New Heights once again for a debrief, which came tucked into chatter about Kelce’s preseason prep.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for screeching
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“Screeching.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/screeching. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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screeching
adjective
screech·ing
ˈskrē-chiŋ
: sudden sense 1a
her career came to a screeching halt
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