How to Use banshee in a Sentence

banshee

noun
Definition of bansheenext
Synonyms for bansheenext
  • I heard someone wailing like a banshee.
  • More like the I.Q. of sloths and the manners of banshees.
    — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 6 Jan. 2017
  • Which banshee will knock the shoes off Marcel the Shell?
    — Katie Reul, Variety, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The other will be a flight aboard one of the mountain banshees featured in the film.
    — Mark Eades, Orange County Register, 22 Mar. 2017
  • This will break the spell of the banshee’s hold and allow the people to emerge from a victim mindset.
    — Thomas Lim, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The aim is to create the illusion of becoming a Na'Vi, who can train and tame the banshees.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, latimes.com, 30 Apr. 2017
  • This bluesy banshee sounded like no other white man in rock and roll.
    — James Wood, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The hosts of the ABC cooking and lifestyle show were toting banshees on their shoulders.
    — Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Seabirds howl like banshees, and seal colonies, numbering in the thousands, bubble and blip among the waves.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2018
  • With its banshee call, dark eyes, and bright white face, a barn owl could pass for a winged ghost, moving silently against the night sky.
    — National Geographic, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Somewhere in the night a train whistle droned like a banshee heralding our mundane doom.
    — Michael Deagler, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The fog was endless; the weather, a banshee; the isolation, extreme.
    — Sarah Gilman, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Winds batter ridges where seabirds howl like banshees, and jackals stalk baroque canyons of soft crumbling rock.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2018
  • Not seeing Pirro shrieking like a banshee would alone be worth it.
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Avatar Flight of Passage invites guests to hop on a mountain banshee for a trip above the jungles of Pandora.
    — Atlanta Life, ajc, 4 May 2017
  • From goth metal banshee siren to pop jazz chanteuse to blues singer, big-voiced Stevens is a master of reinvention and surprise.
    — Hector Saldana, ExpressNews.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Both Jemmas widen their eyes in mock terror as a banshee-screech of audio feedback begins to wail.
    — Elizabeth Horkley, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2020
  • The store, Windtraders, allows guests to take home their own shoulder-sitting banshee (only after taking the Na'vi oath to take care of it, of course).
    — Ricky Brigante, Fox News, 26 May 2017
  • Marla advises that no one listens to a screaming banshee telling them to clean.
    — Karina Bland, azcentral, 25 June 2019
  • About ten minutes in, someone came to my front door and my little dog Meimei, resting at my feet, jumped up and started barking like a banshee.
    — Alan Paul, Billboard, 27 May 2017
  • The banshees are designed to sit on the shoulders of their owners, who can control the mechanical toys’ head movements, sounds and flapping of wings.
    — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 June 2017
  • Inside me everything is lightening bolts and banshee wails and chaos.
    — Joanna Petrone, Longreads, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Confused, pissed-off and hungry to scream the truth, Gaga becomes a banshee on Joanne’s lead single, and the raw performance makes for a captivating listen.
    — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 26 July 2017
  • The Denver Broncos’ defenders charged like banshees and werewolves, coming over and under and hurtling around the Panthers’ blockers.
    — Michael Powell, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2016
  • People have claimed to hear wails of banshees and see ghostly hell hounds and apparitions of Confederate soldiers.
    — AL.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Flight of Passage is a rollicking simulator that re-creates adventures aboard a mountain banshee, the winged best friend of the Na’vi.
    — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 May 2017
  • The banshees swooped and turned and climbed gracefully over the landscape of Pandora, and at the end of some of the first rides of the day, the riders applauded the brief but spectacular piece of theatrical production.
    — Marjie Lambert, miamiherald, 24 May 2017
  • Disney Enterprises has been seeking new patents for ride technology that could pick a route for your car — or boat or banshee — based on how frightened the guest is.
    — Paul Brinkmann, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The magic starts with the engine, a supercharged 5.2L V-8 that can howl like a banshee but leaves the cabin quiet enough for conversation at normal levels.
    — Mark Phelan, chicagotribune.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • And, oh yes, what is probably the best theme-park attraction Walt Disney World engineers have developed to date: a thrilling ride on the back of a flying banshee through a lush, faraway land.
    — Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, 21 June 2017

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