I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
let out a scream/cry/roar etc
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He let out a cry of disbelief.
ran screaming
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Women ran screaming , with children in their arms.
scream and shout
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People were screaming and shouting in the streets.
scream/cry for mercy
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He screamed for mercy, shouting 'don't shoot!'.
screaming like a banshee
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She was screaming like a banshee .
scream/shriek in terror
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She jumped to her feet, screaming in terror.
scream/shriek with laughter (= laugh very noisily and with a high voice )
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The children shrieked with laughter as they watched the clown.
shout/hurl/scream abuse at sb
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The other driver started hurling abuse at me.
squeal/scream with delight
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Lucy suddenly saw the sea and screamed with delight.
was dragged kicking and screaming
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The London Stock Exchange was dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th century.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
agony
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Rincewind's arms screamed their agony at him.
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Pins pierced his body; he screamed , twitching in agony , then slumped to the ground.
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Conroy was restrained by Mr Ali but when police arrived the shopkeeper was screaming in agony .
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Only out of sheer mastery of will did I not scream in agony .
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He screamed in agony and fell to his knees, cradling his broken nose between his bloodied hands.
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Lying there on the floor, cords biting into wrists and ankles, they heard Maureen screaming with terror and agony .
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Rain hissed all around it ... and now Pearce was screaming in agony and distress.
child
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Bottles would be thrown; razors would flash; women and children would scream .
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Parent and child suddenly explode, screaming and hitting.
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There was so much noise around them, children screaming with excitement as a fireworks display exploded across the bay.
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Perhaps the child sits alone in a corner of the playground while other children scream and laugh together.
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Similarly young children resort to screaming because they can not use words to describe what they want.
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The little children screamed in the road.
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In one case a woman waited three quarters of an hour with her child screaming with an open wound.
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Six or seven women fainted, children screamed , grown men gasped in awe and disbelief.
girl
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A girl screamed , and a masked man ran through the bar, pursued by two cops in turn-of-the-century uniforms.
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The girl screamed , and a stout, red-faced man suddenly appeared behind her and opened the door wider.
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Paul Nicholas dimples charmingly as Aladdin, which gets the girls screaming .
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Bar girls were screaming , and trying to fight their way past us.
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The girls were screaming back as the train pulled out and we got away from Khabarovsk without being arrested.
help
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Her mouth opened to scream for help , but the sound emerged as a strangled groan as she realised the mind-numbing truth.
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The woman said she jabbed the suspect with an elbow and screamed for help .
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People were being hit with live lead bullets and were screaming for help .
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The girls became shrews and harridans: they screamed at the help and they smothered their children.
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Mac and Flannery, screaming my name, screaming for help .
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They were trapped, screaming for help and mercy.
laughter
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The juke was screaming and the laughter was wild.
mouth
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For long bouts he had lain in the dark, stuffing his mouth to prevent himself screaming .
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Her mouth opened to scream for help, but the sound emerged as a strangled groan as she realised the mind-numbing truth.
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As the man opened his mouth to scream , part of his tongue fell into his lap.
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She stretched open her mouth , screamed , then spewed out the great twisting branch.
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He opened his mouth to scream his anger and pain, and the water rushed in, eager to silence him.
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She opened her mouth to scream .
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It opens its mouth to scream and releases its hold.
murder
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His bus turned into an Inter-City express without brakes and he sat on top and screamed blue murder .
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We were both in a position to scream bloody murder .
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It might get into the papers, and then she'd be down here knocking on my door and screaming blue murder .
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They say people usually get upset and scream blue murder and all that shite, but no me.
pain
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As she screamed in pain they stole a necklace she was wearing.
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We heard a human voice, screaming in pain .
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Then collapsing and screaming out in pain .
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He screamed with pain , dropping the jacket, twisting around to see Luke swinging his arm back and over.
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He opened his mouth to scream his anger and pain , and the water rushed in, eager to silence him.
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He left John Fox, 25, screaming in pain as his mum and horrified regulars packed his severed ear in ice.
rage
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She continued to shake her stepmother, screaming in her rage .
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The next moment you might be screaming with rage .
terror
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Paul screamed , his terror bursting out of him.
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He tried to scream , but his terror was such that only soundless air came out.
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A woman wept quietly, while a child at her side screamed in terror .
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But just as he put the rope over his head, he screamed in terror and threw his arms above his head.
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Horses reared high and screamed their terror , men, open-mouthed, fell from their saddles.
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Lying there on the floor, cords biting into wrists and ankles, they heard Maureen screaming with terror and agony.
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According to the only survivor, his comrades went under one by one, screaming in terror .
voice
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Despite her threat she doubted if she could summon up enough voice to scream .
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We heard a human voice , screaming in pain.
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There were many voices , screaming differently, loudly raised in a badly orchestrated cantata.
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How do I decide rationally when I hear a thousand different voices screaming contradictory advice?
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I glimpsed half-dressed soldiers seizing crossbows and other armaments and heard Dacourt's voice on the breeze screaming out orders.
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You pathetic old fool, a voice inside her head screamed .
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It horrified her to hear her own voice screaming at her husband for his indolence but she could not help herself.
woman
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Then a woman screamed , and all the lights came on again.
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Six or seven women fainted, children screamed , grown men gasped in awe and disbelief.
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Marlin groaned with revulsion behind her, and a woman on the pavement screamed .
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A woman screamed at a ticket clerk because her bags were routed to Cleveland by accident.
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Bottles would be thrown; razors would flash; women and children would scream .
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A woman screamed , high and loud.
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The event had just started when a woman screamed .
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A woman screamed over to his right.
■ VERB
begin
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He leaned on the bar and began to scream .
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Nevertheless, Ellen swooped down and removed it, and Otis began screaming at her, as she expected him to.
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The boy looked down at the blood and began to scream .
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Quite suddenly the world outside began to scream .
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At once they began to scream their daily challenge; but this time, there was no answer.
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She began screaming and he punched her in the face and ran off.
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She pushes past me and begins to scream .
drag
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They proceeded to apprehend Willis and a fellow partygoer and dragged them screaming and kicking to the squad car.
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They dragged him screaming from the church.
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Iron Arrow eventually found itself dragged kicking and screaming into the twentieth century.
hear
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Pascoe heard her scream and scrambled across junk and debris in the darkness.
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Today, also for the first time in months, I again hear blue jays screaming .
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You can hear them screaming and banging their heads, crying that they want to go home.
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She heard his scream and felt her blood freeze.
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He always could hear them screaming and yelling but it seemed to be happening on another planet far away.
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She heard Ana scream her name but it had all happened so fast that she was stunned.
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You hear some one screaming in the distance.
kick
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Anna began to kick and scream .
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Iron Arrow eventually found itself dragged kicking and screaming into the twentieth century.
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They will say he has dragged his party, albeit kicking and screaming , into the land of realism.
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David would become stiff, fall to the ground, and start kicking and screaming .
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Not going gently, not raging, not kicking or screaming , instead he goes laughing into that mind-expanding, good night.
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Many times her parents had carried her kicking and screaming out of the grocery store or the local department store.
run
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She ran off screaming and hopping down the yard.
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I had to run screaming through the Loop to wave them away.
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Two young urchins ran by, screaming and shouting.
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But there are many more instances when you want to run screaming from Elsinore Castle.
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They ran at it, screaming , in large numbers.
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Idea having a bunch of kids running around and screaming through my evenings?
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He didn't run screaming after the car.
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People stopped and stared, or laughed, or ran along beside us screaming .
shout
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At the first accident I shouted and screamed .
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And even if she had cried out, who takes any notice of anyone shouting , even screaming ?
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They spend their days shouting and screaming in the cell, and then they are finally let out.
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He would lie on the floor, shouting , screaming and banging his feet.
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He started to shout and scream , demanding that he be served with wine.
start
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And if I were to start screaming now it would be too late.
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Out in the hallway, the new widow started screaming at the priest and the doctor.
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The station doors opened and the sirens started screaming .
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During a visit, Michael suddenly starts screaming .
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That's when she started to scream .
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But as soon as some right-wing rag called her a lesbian, she started screaming defamation.
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The event had just started when a woman screamed .
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Feeley, working on an embolism the size of a golf ball, broke into the conversation and started screaming at Marvin.
stop
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Will you please stop screaming and simply listen?
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She dropped her rocks, stopped screaming , and climbed back into the cart.
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My landlady had stopped screaming by now because she'd managed to cover herself up.
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After struggling for a moment to stop it, I screamed and dropped the lot.
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Almost before she had stopped screaming and pulling at his hard whip arm, she felt shame.
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He grasped the arms of his seat to stop himself quivering, to stop himself screaming obscenities into the darkness.
want
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He wanted to scream and shout, beat the wall and call down the forces of destruction.
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I wanted to scream , to tell the kid5 to shut their mouths and go to hell.
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I wanted to scream and run away.
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I mean, when we want to scream , we want to scream.
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But there are many more instances when you want to run screaming from Elsinore Castle.
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I mean, when we want to scream , we want to scream.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
laugh/shout/scream etc your head off
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By this time Irene was emitting a steady gurgle of contentment, when she wasn't laughing her head off.
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If Hancock himself had been around, he would have doubtless squirmed as the audience laughed their heads off.
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Joey stood in the door laughing his head off and Noreen peered over his shoulder, her hands over her mouth.
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Louise: Ursula would have laughed her head off.
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Old Warleigh would laugh his head off if I put reasons like that to him.
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Then he tips her down and she's screaming her head off.
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Tony races past, laughing his head off.
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You were screaming your head off.
scream/yell bloody murder
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People were screaming bloody murder about the ridiculous prices.
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We were both in a position to scream bloody murder.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Go away!" she screamed
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"Help me!" she screamed.
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``Get out!'' she screamed.
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As a child, I used to wake up screaming with terror in the middle of the night.
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Everyone panicked, and people started screaming.
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Maria felt like screaming at her husband.
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Sammy screamed at me to stay back.
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She woke up screaming with terror.
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The boy screamed for help.
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The man pulled a gun, and two of the women near me started screaming.
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The police car sped around the corner with its siren screaming.
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There was a loud bang, and people started screaming.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Adam screamed, loud and violent, in his attempt to absorb the pain.
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And yet I would marvel as he accepted police escorts to whisk him past screaming teenyboppers to court at Wimbledon.
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He would scream obscenities, loud enough to scare me half to death just by the sound of them.
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Let him scream for a while.
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Some one screamed, a high shrill piercing noise that caused her to break out in goose pimples.
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Their brethren had fled screaming from the battlefield.
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They are doing exactly what they are screaming others are doing to them.
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When she saw Quinn, she dropped the bag and screamed.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
loud
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But suddenly, I heard a loud and terrible scream .
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Suddenly I heard a loud scream and rushed to the front door.
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And then a long loud scream breaks from me.
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She went to church in Lynne, and there gave her first really loud scream .
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The screwdriver emitted a loud , incessant scream .
■ VERB
give
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Then she gave a little scream of happiness.
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The roaring, bellowing growls sometimes gave rise to screams of agony.
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Yukio gave a choking scream as the pressure within his suit forced his helmet back up over the latches.
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She gave her tenor scream , and the wolves answered.
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When he told them how he had thrown the Bible, Mrs Wood gave a little scream .
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She gave a little scream ... and woke up.
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Oliver gave a high scream and wrenched away from him.
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At that moment a small child lunged into the room and gave a bloodcurdling scream .
hear
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The children who were with him that night said that you could hear his screams three blocks away.
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Every ten minutes or so she would hear the tortured scream of the transmission and randomly change gears.
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The next thing I recall is hearing Daniel's screams and going looking for him.
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Watch the baby splutter and gasp. Hear the baby scream for hours on end.
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She got hold of the railings and all I could hear was screams .
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The rock-and-roll and sleep deprivation, the chair, even leaving me out in the corridor to hear the screams .
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Molly had buttoned up the braces on Jacqueline's trousers and found her youngest child a biscuit when she heard the screams .
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I heard a scream one night, and then heavy wingbeats.
let
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He turned and the girl who had just come in let out a little scream .
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At this point, you will let out a scream suggesting that some one has just blown off your toe with a. 45.
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I let out a terrified scream and scuttled down the stairs.
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Horror-struck, and then furiously angry, she let out a piercing scream and pushed her husband savagely away.
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Instead, he let out a terrified scream .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
drag sb kicking and screaming into sth
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Mim will have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
kicking and screaming
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David would become stiff, fall to the ground, and start kicking and screaming.
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General practice is thus being forced kicking and screaming into the computer age.
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He was dragged kicking and screaming to a van parked nearby.
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Iron Arrow eventually found itself dragged kicking and screaming into the twentieth century.
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Many times her parents had carried her kicking and screaming out of the grocery store or the local department store.
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Nobody across the programme was dragged kicking and screaming out of their hospital bed into the community.
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We are merely animals, creatures that are brought kicking and screaming into this world and then die.
laugh/shout/scream etc your head off
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By this time Irene was emitting a steady gurgle of contentment, when she wasn't laughing her head off.
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If Hancock himself had been around, he would have doubtless squirmed as the audience laughed their heads off.
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Joey stood in the door laughing his head off and Noreen peered over his shoulder, her hands over her mouth.
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Louise: Ursula would have laughed her head off.
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Old Warleigh would laugh his head off if I put reasons like that to him.
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Then he tips her down and she's screaming her head off.
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Tony races past, laughing his head off.
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You were screaming your head off.
scream/yell bloody murder
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People were screaming bloody murder about the ridiculous prices.
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We were both in a position to scream bloody murder.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A gun went off, and I heard a scream of fear from inside the room.
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Charlie gave a scream of delight as he opened the present.
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The battlefield echoed with the screams of the wounded and the dying.
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We could hear screams coming from inside the blazing building.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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She was pondering this in a panic, when she heard the scream of the children and the sound of feet running.
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Their screams of horror and cries for mercy only brought a smile to my face.
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Then she gave a little scream of happiness.
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There was a scream of pain.