How To Use Banshee In A Sentence
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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.
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Amaiya opened her mouth to reply, but her hands flew to her ears as a banshee wail hammered the sky.
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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
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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
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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.
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I was speaking with a veritable banshee of a woman: red-headed, a writer and a boxer.
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What I need is a boylike banshee yell launch off the rope swing.
If I Am Missing or Dead
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With their banshee wails, squalling guitars and naked aggression, they are baring their souls and they are angry.
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Suspense builds as the siren wails like a crippled banshee.
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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
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Begorrah, ye're starin 'at me, sure, ez if I wor a ghost or a banshee, bedad!
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy
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The train was still inside the tunnel, the wind howling like a mad banshee through the open windows.
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At windswept Banshee Bay, our campsite beneath the casuarina trees was made comfortable by some beachcomber's driftwood furniture.
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The lone unicorn, basilisk and banshee wandered as they pleased.
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The eerie wind began to sound like the wail of a banshee, the creaks and groans of the castle began to seem like footsteps stalking toward her.
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The roar of the tank, the buzz of the jeep, and the sudden whiz of the banshee add the right amount of ambiance to an action game.
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Already on the bill were The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Buzzcocks and The Vibrators… blimey!
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Her shrieking, wailing voice was the whisper of mortality piercing the ears like the banshee's own call, a twin to the driving terror that pierced the mind.
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So - even before I'd seen the movie - I'd decided that the Banshee and Great leonopteryx were inspired by (1) microraptors, (2) tapejarids and (3) proximity gliding suits, plus with a bit of raptor and megabat thrown in too.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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Jeryd is a rumel, a species of nonhuman that can live for hundreds of years and shares the city with humans, birdlike garuda, and the eerie banshees whose forlorn cries herald death.
Archive 2010-03-01
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I mean, a banshee, a pooka and leprechauns sure sound strange to me.
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I croaked, woken from my recurrent dream of loading reams of information onto the computer, by a banshee wail that went on and on, somewhere in the very near vicinity.
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It was the wail of a thousand banshees, mixed with the mournful cries of wolves.
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Strong winds make it twist, jiggle and dance, hum, sing and scream like a banshee.
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And if she continued to scream like a banshee into his ear—well, maybe that was partly in revenge for being called a nag.
Primal Instincts
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A celestial organ devolves into the shrill shrieks of swooping banshees, and deep rumbles sound like the dyspeptic gurgles in a huge beasts' stomach.
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Surprised in her satiety by good guys Thalmus Rasulala and Gordon Pinsent, she bolts upright with another of her unsettling banshee wails, her fangs besmeared with blood, ready to rumble.
31 Screams: Ketty Lester
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An avant-garde version of Ashlee Simpson, Thomas alternated between banshee wails and guttural growls to pre-recorded noise, while windmilling her arm to sometimes strike the strings of her guitar.
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She suddenly shouted: 'You rotten guy, you monster, you banshee, you elflock, get out of here or I'll scream and all of Frampol will come running.'
Pratie Place
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Was it you who was up in the night wailing like a banshee?
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I croaked, woken from my recurrent dream of loading reams of information onto the computer, by a banshee wail that went on and on, somewhere in the very near vicinity.
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Audrey's blonde hair was blown by the wind, making her look like some screaming banshee.
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Tegan and Sara's voices are equally cutesy but while one is cosy and hopeful, the other is only a kitten-heeled step away from a bolshy banshee.
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And winn again, blaguadargoos, or lues the day, plays goat, the banshee pealer, if moskats knows whoss whizz, the great day and the druidful day come San
Finnegans Wake
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The air was cold and a stiff wind had blown up, howling down corridors like a banshee.
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Eventually with a hefty yank and a banshee-like howl (from me, not Ian), the damn thing came out.
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A banshee, before I go on, is an Irish myth.
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Discussions relating to Banshee take place in #banshee on GIMPnet IRC (irg. gnome.org) and on the banshee-list mailing list
GnomeFiles.org
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We proceeded to punk up and new wave traditional festive songs, smash our guitars onstage to the horror of the audience and made cheong-sammed banshees and rosy-cheeked schoolchildren quake in their dressing rooms.
That's Entertainment
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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
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As guitars wail out of control and gospel choruses wail like baritone banshees, it becomes obvious that screwing and chopping has only begun to touch upon its potential.
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The banshees had arrived soon after, descending upon the gnome village, buzzing and chittering in the language of the viciously insane.
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As he moved with his Subartans into the open Frost could sense the spirits of the banshees all around them, closer now, gathering perhaps, he thought, to listen.
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It carried on wailing like a banshee for a good 5 minutes before I decided I couldn't take it anymore.
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He heard the banshee wail of an incoming rocket and so instinctively he dove to the ground.
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Pidgin, Gwibber and Banshee are only some of the applications that will take advantage of this notification framework (called notify-osd).
Softpedia News - Global
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With their banshee wails, squalling guitars and naked aggression, they are baring their souls and they are angry.
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The saved game had a running counter on the amount of time played and i believe it was 32hr at the last count (i need to double check). but my actual playtime is definitely much much higher since there are quite a few instances where i screwed up and forgot to save or died and had to redo. i bought the game last tuesday, so it's safe to say that 6 days is pretty close. but i also had help from gamebanshee. com on some of the more tedious puzzles also. looking back, i think i got most of the early side quests, but i missed a lot of the side quests in the later part of the game -- especially those that depended on your travelling to some planets before others to get the quests ...
SW KotOR: Whew, what a ride!
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It was about twenty years ago when the world became extinct of free-living banshees, unicorns, centaurs and other creatures.
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Right as we got to the top near the exit door, Maggie let loose a banshee yell and fell backwards down the stairs.
ICED
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The suggestion of murkiness was only compounded by Jack Warner's comment that, on hearing the claims against him, he laughed "like hell", as though this would somehow make him seem just really innocent and reassuring, rather than like the kind of horrifying, banshee figure who might appear in your nightmares waving a breadknife and wearing only a butcher's apron and a beard of bees.
It's time to admit football is pure evil | Barney Ronay
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The wail of the banshees had been growing in intensity for some time.
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Manson's deadpan seriousness in wailing these corkers out, banshee style, detracts from the album's good points, namely its well-mixed beats and darkly atmospheric sounds.
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The roar of the tank, the buzz of the jeep, and the sudden whiz of the banshee add the right amount of ambiance to an action game.
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Right as we got to the top near the exit door, Maggie let loose a banshee yell and fell backwards down the stairs.
ICED
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At windswept Banshee Bay, our campsite beneath the casuarina trees was made comfortable by some beachcomber's driftwood furniture.
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They just adore tiptoeing around and shaking their heads when the broads shatter glass with their banshee wails.
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The trauma on Tuesday was followed in the middle of Thursday night by a storm, a howling banshee that shook buildings—thunder like a cannonade, lightning tearing through the sky.
We'll Never Get Over It, Nor Should We
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Banshee, nor of his cough, with a spitting of blood, brought on, I understand, by catching cold in attending the courts, and overstraining his chest with making himself heard in one of his favourite causes.
Castle Rackrent
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Flinging herself on the sofa, wailing like a banshee ,' Maggie laughed.
FALLEN WOMEN
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The Banshee IV successfully influenced the overall appearance for the fourth generation of those cars.
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She also has another name - the Queen of Scream, apparently accompanying every show with a banshee wail of expelled breath.
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Flinging herself on the sofa, wailing like a banshee ,' Maggie laughed.
FALLEN WOMEN
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When they rang early on Sunday morning and broke the news to my Mum she howled like a banshee which woke me up.
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Rather than the standard barrage of bass and major barre chords, The Banshees offered a sound that was expansive and broad, yet no less claustrophobic and tense than any of their peers.
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The wind was howling between the trees, the sound sometimes rising to a banshee wail, sometimes falling to a moan.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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Was it you who was up in the night wailing like a banshee?
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Whipping the crowd into a fury from the first note, everyone was apparently quite pleased to hear the change, bounding around the Opera House like possessed banshees.
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Harry and Dolly have been in and out like Swiss cuckoos, demanding I open the door the instant the rain has stopped and the wind dropped, then wailing like banshees when things got bad again.
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An ambulance raced into the picture, sirens wailing like banshees.
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The good folk of Ireland quail in their beds when they hear the banshee wail of the Irish Postie.
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According to witnesses, the interlopers wreaked havoc at the packed discussion, interrupted, attacked and screamed like banshees.
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When I woke up to the banshee-screech of a bandsaw, I assumed we were getting another door.
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Aurella's voice suddenly rose into a banshee's wail of anger.
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The Banshee IV successfully influenced the overall appearance for the fourth generation of those cars.
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Rather than the standard barrage of bass and major barre chords, The Banshees offered a sound that was expansive and broad, yet no less claustrophobic and tense than any of their peers.
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Like the wailing banshee who is a harbinger of death, the ghost cries out for a narrative context, since even the most disembodied ghost needs to be fleshed out with a ghost story.
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The wind was howling between the trees, the sound sometimes rising to a banshee wail, sometimes falling to a moan.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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That is still the case, although there is one demure young lass whose eldritch scream would be enough to frighten even the toughest banshee.
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For example, baddies can only ever enter stage left and ‘ethereals’ (ghosts, banshees and spirits) must never be touched by the ‘live’ actors.
