Hamish Bowles

This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.

English Journalist

Jonjo Shelvey

When I was eight or nine, we had a goal in the back yard of our council flat. We used to flip it over the back fence and take it out onto the estate. Everyone would come out and we'd play for hours, there were cars screeching to a halt when the ball went on the road.

Stewart Udall

I am not proposing that we bring our oil and auto industries to a screeching halt. There is still time to begin a series of gradual steps toward new transportation and energy policies, livable cities, and more humane, efficient transit systems.

American Politician

Katherine Dunn

In boxing, it just seemed to me from the time I was a very small child, we have a peculiarly civilized form in that boxers don't screech and holler. They don't use weapons. When the bell rings, they fight; when the bell rings again, they stop.

American Novelist

Mike Hughes

We are supposed to come to the end of our lives not with anything left, but everything exhausted. The tires are blown down, your out of gasoline, you are coming to a screeching halt - you know you have done everything you can possible do.

American Celebrity

Jose Ferreira

If the penalty for hiring illegals is just a fine, it becomes a business decision. But if the penalty is jail time, illegal immigration will come to a screeching halt.

American Businessman

Rachel Morrison

To me, as an audience member, movies always come to a screeching halt when they get to their action scenes. They always feel like they drag on to me.

American Director

Mike Gallagher

Liberals love to screech about 'free speech,' but it's pretty clear to most of us that they don't really tolerate any speech but theirs.

American Critic

George Clooney

When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.

American Actor

Tina Weymouth

I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

American Musician

Used to describe sounds that occur abruptly, indicating surprise or urgency.

Sudden Occurrences

Often associated with a negative reaction, such as fear or discomfort.

Negative Emotion

Emphasizes the sheer loudness and piercing quality of a sound.

Strong Intensity

Indicates someone making a loud, high sound because of strong emotion or pain.

Expressing Emotion

Reflects an attempt to get immediate attention, especially in a chaotic situation.

Needs Attention

Can describe the sound made when halting suddenly and forcefully.

Abrupt Stopping

A term specific to Newfoundland, Canada, often linked to local tradition.

Cultural Reference

Refers to the rough, potent quality of the alcoholic drink.

Strong Flavor

Usually consumed in social gatherings or as a part of local festivities.

Social Contexts

 I see these lights coming towards me. I hadn't seen anybody for like three weeks. And this guy screeches up with a racing car, with big fat tires." And she said his pupils were the size of pinpricks. This guy was so obviously on speed or something, And she said, "He hit on me."

Alone Across the Outback...

 She’d take one glance inside, then be able to rid her mind of it forever But at the first crack of the lid, the box burst open. Monstrous creatures and horrendous sounds rushed out in a cloud of smoke and swirled around her, screeching and cackling. Filled with terror,

The myth of Pandora’s...

 They were catching pigeons like there's no tomorrow. They'd bring 'em in, he'd then wolf it down and screech at them to go and get another one. He was also exercising and stretching his wings, ready for his maiden voyage, his first flight. His voyage into the sky.

Adventures in...

 to do my own medicine is very important I think our modern medical system would out definitely come to a bit of a screeching halt people are relying on medicines in the hospitals they might not be there when you really need him

The Doctor is In PIPE...

 motivation the 8th Wisconsin became known as the Eagle regiment and old a was in at least three dozen engagements he always found battle stimulating and he would react by flapping his wings and screeching loudly the bird never

James Robertson: The...

 after one of my lectures reported a story, and that was a story -- He said he'd been listening to a symphony, and it was absolutely glorious music and at the very end of the recording, there was a dreadful screeching sound.

The riddle of experience...

 an arm core they just finally sawing you know they credible screech they just have a good look at me fantastic what an amazing sound I reckon we've got our first fully mature stag said to rest it

Deer Stalking PIPE Secret...

 your eyes were constantly rolling, your jaw was clenching so hard that it felt like your teeth were about to break, and every ten seconds, you were forced to let out a loud, high-pitched screech.

What it's like to have...

 screeching in the night, the high-pitched honest cries of children and the thunderous, unbearable silence. "War," a friend of mine said,

Screech