How to Use screamer in a Sentence

screamer

noun
  • The batter hit a screamer right at the shortstop.
  • She kicked a screamer into the net.
  • Don't startle her—she's a screamer.
  • My last computer was pretty fast, but this one's a real screamer.
  • There are screamers, which sound like a squealing duck and trail a tail of flame.
    — David Gutman, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Cristiano Ronaldo has scored more than his fair share of screamers.
    — SI.com, 27 Oct. 2019
  • Before each scream, screamers ball up each slip of paper and toss it into the lake then scream.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Owen Miller, in the sixth inning, sent a screamer back to the mound that Greinke caught.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 4 Oct. 2022
  • These screamers can no longer be condescended to, as a quirky sideshow to pop music.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
  • McDaniel has never been a screamer or a tyrant like some old-school coaches.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Conceding a screamer from outside the box is not anyone's fault.
    — Steve Madeley, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Pellegrino’s screamer to the top of the goal pushed the lead to 3-0.
    — Kyle Kensing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2025
  • More of a huffer than a screamer, the turbo four shoves the Mazda along on a wave of low-end torque.
    — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 3 Feb. 2020
  • The screamers were easy to spot once their group emerged from the sewer onto the city block right before my hiding spot.
    — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Penalty kicks in concrete cages, long-range screamers in top-flight stadiums.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 28 June 2026
  • Penalty kicks in concrete cages, long-range screamers in top-flight stadiums.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 28 June 2026
  • Beth Mead took the ball wide of O’Hara on the left and served in a curling, low screamer.
    — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 2 July 2019
  • The screamers on sports television networks and radio stations should feel free to rip and roar as well.
    — Ailene Voisin, sacbee, 10 Aug. 2017
  • The screamer is released from his obsession, finally at home in the world.
    — Mark Greif, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Max Muncy was playing halfway to the right field fence when Santana sent a screamer to his right.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 9 July 2019
  • Posey hit a screamer into the left-center gap and sauntered into second with a two-run double.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 May 2021
  • The play began when Wiemer got an excellent jump on a screamer off the bat of Verdugo.
    — Journal Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2023
  • In fact the Brighton midfielder very nearly scored a similar screamer in the first half.
    — Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Chris Duvall fired a surprise screamer off a loose ball in the 41st minute that just barely went wide of goal.
    — oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2020
  • As with the screamers left in the field, there’s more to the person than relatively brief public glimpses convey.
    — Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • From some angles in videos of this screamer, Bright seems to have thumped her pass into the no-man’s land of Spurs’ defence.
    — The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 20 May 2025
  • Urged out from the line of shufflers and idlers, watchers, pavement men, a big blond screamer flailed at the kerb, denouncing all traffic.
    — Leo Robson, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Who can forget his screamer at Stamford Bridge in the dawn of the Guardiola era?
    — Juan Pimiento, chicagotribune.com, 29 Apr. 2018
  • Given one too many opportunities, Chawinga unleashed a true close-range screamer that did not miss.
    — Jeff Rosen, Kansas City Star, 30 May 2026
  • Plus, how could the Fire not win after Aleksandar Katai’s amazing screamer of a goal?
    — Juan Pimiento, chicagotribune.com, 22 Apr. 2018

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