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US
/ˈbænʃi, bænˈʃi/
]
[ UK /bˈænʃiː/ ]
[ UK /bˈænʃiː/ ]
NOUN
- (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death
How To Use banshee In A Sentence
- In the end the keeners stalked the funeral processions screaming and shrieking all the more like vengeful banshees and had to be chased by the priests.
- Amaiya opened her mouth to reply, but her hands flew to her ears as a banshee wail hammered the sky.
- Now he was going to have to pay the price, and the last thing he wanted to hear at eight in the morning was a screaming banshee. NOBODY'S BABY BUT MINE
- Jane was momentarily shocked the first time she heard the voice, which seemed to come from a person much larger and wilder than Georgie: a banshee, perhaps, or a bushwoman. The Wayward Muse
- So we spent the best part of 2 hours running around the house screaming like crazed banshees, dodging (in my case not very successfully) my deranged older brother.
- I was speaking with a veritable banshee of a woman: red-headed, a writer and a boxer.
- What I need is a boylike banshee yell launch off the rope swing. If I Am Missing or Dead
- With their banshee wails, squalling guitars and naked aggression, they are baring their souls and they are angry.
- Suspense builds as the siren wails like a crippled banshee.
- Service -- that the hundred thousand ears adorning the anatomy of the human population were first shocked by the horrisonous banshee wail of the hooters. The Siege of Kimberley