Screeching in a sentence as a noun

Honestly, I love using it. But where are all the people that I used to see screeching about semantic markup?

IE9 and IE9 64-bit come to a screeching halt after 30 minutes of live streaming and have to be killed by task manager.

The loud *** subway, underground, with no view, screeching and bumping and vibrating along.

The guitar parts are absurd, the band sometimes plays straight screeching noise, and the song barely holds together.

Google was steadily improving Dalvik right up until that lawsuit happened, then it came to a screeching halt.

People would like to go around on a bad hair day without it being picked apart by screeching Internet fashionistas.

However, I can't tell you how many times I've mentioned my fiance and the conversation comes to a screeching halt, see ya.

Comparatively, some anonymous screeching on a message board doesn't seem all that worrying.

Evolutionary punctuation only just happens so often, but that doesn't mean evolution has come to a screeching halt.

"Clickers" are one such subtype of infected; their eyes have been overgrown with fungus so they use echolocation to find you and make distinctive screeching and clicking sounds.

Because the game looks kind of pretty in an abstract way, but that endless loop of a screeching crowd and three seconds of music makes me want to throw something through my speakers after a few minutes.

> his brilliant career in the United States came to a screeching halt in 1950, when the FBI accused him of being a member of a subversive organizationYep, looks like the FBI created the problem they were ineptly trying to prevent.

Is it a gimmick to do this at a rate that makes it possible for the engineers to actually fix the bugs as they discovered, rather than have a few thousand an hour bring the entire system to a screeching halt?You must not write software, mr know it all...

After 8 years of trying to pick founders, part of my brain has turned into a founder detector that I can no longer turn off, and the first few times I talked to Zuck, I found it hard to concentrate because I had to contend with a screeching Geiger counter in my head.

There's already an alternative to doing so, called a library; since the book sales business did quite well int he pre-internet days despite the widespread availability of libraries, I'm not sure why the author thinks a functioning e-book library is suddenly going to bring sales to a screeching halt.

Screeching definitions

noun

a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry; "he ducked at the screechings of shells"; "he heard the scream of the brakes"

See also: screech shriek shrieking scream screaming

noun

sharp piercing cry; "her screaming attracted the neighbors"

See also: scream screaming shriek shrieking screech