How to Use banshee in a Sentence

banshee

noun

• I heard someone wailing like a banshee.
• This bluesy banshee sounded like no other white man in rock and roll.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
• The other will be a flight aboard one of the mountain banshees featured in the film.
  — Mark Eades, Orange County Register, 22 Mar. 2017
• Temperance let loose a banshee wail.
  — Charna Flam, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• Winds batter ridges where seabirds howl like banshees, and jackals stalk baroque canyons of soft crumbling rock.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2018
• Not seeing Pirro shrieking like a banshee would alone be worth it.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
• Somewhere in the night a train whistle droned like a banshee heralding our mundane doom.
  — Michael Deagler, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
• 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
• His bronc riders look more like pietàs in mud; his barrel racers scream like banshees on horseback.
  — Casey Cep, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
• Weaving, even more than before, makes Grace an ingénue gone banshee.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Mar. 2026
• Seabirds howl like banshees, and seal colonies, numbering in the thousands, bubble and blip among the waves.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2018
• Marla advises that no one listens to a screaming banshee telling them to clean.
  — Karina Bland, azcentral, 25 June 2019
• The bond between a rider and their banshee doesn't break, and chances are your bond with this two-figure set won't either.
  — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2025
• Inside me everything is lightening bolts and banshee wails and chaos.
  — Joanna Petrone, Longreads, 18 Aug. 2017
• Both Jemmas widen their eyes in mock terror as a banshee-screech of audio feedback begins to wail.
  — Elizabeth Horkley, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2020
• The fog was endless; the weather, a banshee; the isolation, extreme.
  — Sarah Gilman, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Oct. 2020
• Then, like an alarm clock, howler monkeys unleashed their banshee shriek, staking their territory as the sun rose.
  — Ryan Knighton, AFAR Media, 31 Oct. 2025
• There aren’t songs with Chino screaming like a banshee, nor are there any overindulging atmospheric tracks.
  — Quentin Thane Singer, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• The aim is to create the illusion of becoming a Na'Vi, who can train and tame the banshees.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, latimes.com, 30 Apr. 2017
• Almshouse dwellers, sitting in the sun, watching the surging tide and the glistening water, tell of spirits and banshees and fays.
  — Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2022
• About ten minutes in, someone came to my front door and my little dog Meimei, resting at my feet, jumped up and started barking like a banshee.
  — Alan Paul, Billboard, 27 May 2017
• The banshee, a spirit of Scottish and Irish origin, signifies death.
  — Noel Burgess, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
• The banshees are designed to sit on the shoulders of their owners, who can control the mechanical toys’ head movements, sounds and flapping of wings.
  — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 June 2017
• People have claimed to hear wails of banshees and see ghostly hell hounds and apparitions of Confederate soldiers.
  — AL.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• Avatar Flight of Passage invites guests to hop on a mountain banshee for a trip above the jungles of Pandora.
  — Atlanta Life, ajc, 4 May 2017
• Frehley picks up on the drummer’s simmering syncopation hereand unleashes a banshee-like howl of a solo that still clings to the band’s rhythm.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
• Disney Enterprises has been seeking new patents for ride technology that could pick a route for your car — or boat or banshee — based on how frightened the guest is.
  — Paul Brinkmann, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• The store, Windtraders, allows guests to take home their own shoulder-sitting banshee (only after taking the Na'vi oath to take care of it, of course).
  — Ricky Brigante, Fox News, 26 May 2017
• One striking example is when Jake Sully, played by Sam Worthington, tames his banshee.
  — Gerui Wang, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
• Devastated, Fi sets off after the banshee and asks the creature to reconsider her grandfather’s fate.
  — Ashley Wolfgang, Vulture, 1 Feb. 2021