| 单词 | screecher |
| 例句 | But the screechers had sharp curved claws on each front foot, and sometimes those left marks. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “When screechers were invented, Mother Nature made them scented.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I woke that night to a horrible sound, a full-throated screaming into the blackness, screecher loud. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z When they weren’t frightened, screechers still had an odor about them. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Drifting off, the screecher settles into her den. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I was the first to admit that screechers weren’t exactly charming. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z When we learned about a nearby village that had been overrun with screechers, we created a new incentive for hunters. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Like him, I’d seen screechers digging near blue willow roots now and then. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z About a screecher who dined on peacock snails. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I supposed screechers got the rheumatism, same as people. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Magic or not, right now, we’ve got ourselves a hungry baby screecher, and nothing at all to feed it.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Mae and Birdie did not seem particularly surprised to find a basket containing a baby screecher arriving at their door. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The screecher squeaked, circled, reared upon her hind legs, and toppled onto her side. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z A younger screecher would have noticed me approaching, but he probably couldn’t hear or smell as well as he used to. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Well, there was an abandoned den there. Fox, maybe? Didn’t seem like it had been used in a while. But since it was near those willows, and sometimes I’ve seen screechers digging around their roots...” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z And yet it reminded me of the time I’d seen the screecher family while berry hunting with my father, that good day before everything had gone so wrong. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “I had a dog named Quinby once. Used to howl at night like a coyote. Or a screecher.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z There she was, a ma screecher curled near a fallen tree, along with a tangle of five squirming, complaining babies. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I loosened my grip just a tad, and out popped her little screecher head, comical tusks and all. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z People and plants and fish and birds and yes, even screechers. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z All the while, I kept my eyes open for bugs or greens that might appeal to our hungry baby screecher. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z While we were seeing fewer and fewer hummingbears each fall, by the time I was nearly eleven, the screechers had all but disappeared. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z And it sure seemed to me that screechers had always been the underdogs in nature’s plan. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “We don’t have any screechers because of that stupid bounty,” I yelled. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I felt the screecher sculpture in my pocket. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z That the baby screecher had a notched ear. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The screecher’s appearance on the carousel, my empty coat pocket, the attempted escape, the reed tied around its neck. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I held up the screecher in its napkin wrapping, and the pleased look on Connor’s face almost made me forget how little I wanted to be there. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Well, as you know, I always smell like screecher,” I said as casually as I could. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z As I headed into the trees, the high-pitched whistle of a steam engine carried on the wind, harsh and plaintive as a screecher’s call. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z And a couple years back, I’d even caught a glimpse of a ma screecher with four newborns. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Ahh,” he said, “would this be about the screechers, yet again? We have an awful lot to think about, as you can see, my dear. Perhaps another time.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Soft dirt meant easier digging—at least, it did if you had screecher claws. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Looking for hints about screecher behavior I might have missed. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The screecher has come back to the place where she began. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “The screecher I gave you had a sweetgrass reed tied in a bow around its neck.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I wasn’t certain how to tell if a screecher was happy, but I was pretty sure we carried one home that afternoon. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “We’re not here to discuss the lack of screechers,” said Mr. Burke in a calm voice. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z A payment for every screecher from that area, safely trapped and brought to Perchance, alive and well. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Will the screecher ever know everything she needs to know? Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I consulted my notebooks and tried to remember everything Pa had ever told me about screechers. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Baby screechers didn’t just suddenly appear out of thin air. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The familiar scent of scared screecher wafted my way. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Instead of flames and death, I dreamed I heard a screecher calling. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Seemed we were far enough away for the ma screecher to calm herself. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Have you ever heard one call at night? A screecher, I mean?” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “That’s what I like about watching screechers. Trying to figure all that out. Like your ma with the birds, I s’pose.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “It was around the same time the village council decided to put a bounty on screechers, right?” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “These animals...screechers...they’re as much a part of things as you and me.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “I really think he might have been the last. I haven’t seen any other screechers in ages.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z After the group calmed down, I explained, best as I could, how screechers and hummingbears and blue willows all needed each other, even if it wasn’t easy for us to see or understand. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “That’s the screecher girl,” Primrose said as they walked past me. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The autumn before last, I’d seen two adult screechers eating spotted oak moths. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The ma screecher nudged one of the babies with her snout. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Speak your mind. Tell them how you feel about the bounty on the screechers. Get it off your chest.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Its tip was sharp as a screecher tail quill. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z They could be surly as...well, as screechers. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Gently as I could, I slipped the sweetgrass reed over the screecher’s head. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Pa said as the screecher nestled with her brood. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The screecher sits near the base of the blue willow. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z It had been occupied by a family of four screechers the year before. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z If the unthinkable could happen, if your family could vanish in a moment, why couldn’t a sculpture of a screecher come to life? Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z There were two other spots where I’d found screechers nesting in the past, and I planned to check those areas, too. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z To begin with, we stopped the bounty on screechers. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The screecher awakens in her nest—is that what it is?—and listens to the night world. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z On the other hand, once again I bore screecher perfume, which would make it difficult for me to pass unnoticed. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Nature likes things in balance. My pa taught me that. Maybe the screechers kept the snail population in check.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “What else do you do, when you’re not making screechers?” asked Birdie, who was busy preparing a liniment rub for her rheumatism. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I found myself counting the worries the way I counted screechers. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Look,” an old man said, “it’s the screecher girl.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “I don’t know anything about magic screechers,” I said. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “With our screecher friend, for example, I’m afraid we haven’t been of much use to you.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The screecher still hadn’t quite grasped the art of running. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I’d heard the quills of adult screechers caused a miserable sting and took forever to remove. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Five pieces of copper for a screecher pelt! Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z For it was beautiful, even though it was a screecher. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Tear-streaked face, mouth locked in a frown, all alone with my screecher. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z As if the old screecher could understand me. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I stood and slipped the screecher back into my pocket. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z And bringing in screechers would help keep the snail population under control. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z That even if we brought screechers back, nothing would change overnight. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I saw my first screechers when I was six. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z But eventually, I began to know the screechers as individuals. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Even when they were young, I had to admit that screechers were odd-looking animals, and this one was no exception. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Strangely enough, the baby screecher didn’t seem particularly surprised, either. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z When tourists complained about the horrible beasts stinking up our village, we learned to simply shrug and say, “When screechers were invented, Mother Nature made them scented.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z It had been eleven months since I’d heard a screecher call out at night. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z But it was the screechers that mattered most to me, and worried me more. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Something scratched my arm, and I realized it was the screecher’s claws. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Soon I had my favorite screechers, and I gave them names. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I knew the old screecher would have died soon, anyway. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “I think they killed him. An old screecher.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z But my confusion about the screecher’s origins made me wary. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The baby screecher’s eyes were huge with fear. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The baby screecher skittered back and forth in the basket. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I was always searching, unlikely as I knew it was, for more screechers. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I took a flying leap off the carousel, stretched out my arms, and trapped the baby screecher under my coat. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z As go the screechers, so go us all. All Screechers Great and Small: An Eco Fairy Tale 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z That's why it was cool, calm Stella who won, not any of the screechers, just as it was elegant Rebecca who came closest to winning The X Factor. So girls are not all as nice as pie. And your point is? 2011-01-02T00:07:17Z Davis just delivered his lines in his usual matter-of-fact, Jersey-inflected tones, sounding more like an undertaker at a small-town funeral than a capital city screecher. Lanny Davis, the ultimate Clinton loyalist, is now Michael Cohen’s lawyer. But don’t call it revenge. 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Hancock points to a younger woman and labels her a “screecher”. Abortion in the south: The 'escorts' who ward off protesters at Mississippi's lone clinic 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Couple this with Fox News and talk-radio screechers like Bill O'Reilly encouraging violence against abortion doctors such as "Dr. Tiller the Baby Killer," and it's kind of a miracle that more women haven't been killed. After terror comes the media BS: No, lazy pundits, “both sides” don’t do this 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z This obnoxious habit also assures that fans will turn off the TV when the screecher appears. To Boost Sports Performance (and Annoy Your Opponents), Grunt 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z But that doesn’t prove the screecher intended to warn others. Chimps Tailor Alarms to What Other Chimps Know 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z In this regard, he’s the perfect chief executive for this era in which every anonymous screecher on social media thinks he or she knows everything about everything. Donald Trump thinks Andrew Jackson could have avoided the Civil War: Words cannot capture how ignorant and offensive that is 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z He was a “nonsensical” screecher of “wild words” whose appearance, according to Newsweek, “suggests Charlie Chaplin.” Normalizing fascists: What history can tell us about leaders making the movement 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z He was a “nonsensical” screecher of “wild words” whose appearance, according to Newsweek, “suggests Charlie Chaplin”. The press has fallen for fascists before | John Broich 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z On Monday, Jones’ obsession with gender issues emerged again as the talk show screecher pegged his latest rant off Garrison’s repulsive First Lady cartoon. No limits to Alex Jones’ hatred and insanity: The right-wing conspiracy psycho thinks Michelle Obama killed Joan Rivers 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z The screecher whistled over the neighborhood and, within hours, police yanked him from his home, he says. One African’s Personal Space Race Turns Vermin Into Astronauts 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z The word was mocked like this in an October 1906 New York Times article containing fake “definitions” from Oxford: Strix flagitans is Latin that roughly corresponds to “demanding screecher.” Everything You Need to Know About the Word 'Suffragette' 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Another semifinal between the hard-hitting screechers could be the highlight of the women’s tournament. Wimbledon: Federer-Nadal draw is on-court news; Serena Williams-Maria Shaparova tiff is off-court topic 2013-06-23T21:43:18Z The sport’s two most well-known screechers, Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova, are No. 3 and No. 4 in the rankings and are semifinalists at the Australian Open. Women?s Tennis Tries to Get the Grunting Under Control 2012-01-26T01:20:15Z And despite the screechers of summer, he seems likely to pass a universal-health-care plan. 2010-01-07T20:25:00Z They tried to obey, but an instant later all leaped to their feet, as a volley of mule screechers mixed with human oaths and imprecations came up from a neighboring ravine. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign The teacher a lesson he taught; The preacher a lesson he praught; The stealer, he stole; The healer, he hole; And the screecher, he awfully scraught. Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10 They hailed him in this fashion: "There goes Mr. Beecher, he is a screecher." Sixty years with Plymouth Church Thomas basted out a screecher, and Miss Ross followed with the best shot she ever made. John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life First, I sent a screecher of a drive right down the middle of the fairway. A Damsel in Distress Otherwise, you've got the grand opera bunch sent to the soap factory—in looks, I mean; for the high screechers generally look like Mary Ann on her Thursday out. Options |
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