squawk
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Synonyms & Antonyms for squawk
Synonyms: Verb
beef, bellyache, bitch, bleat, carp, caterwaul, complain, crab, croak, fuss, gripe, grizzle, grouch, grouse, growl, grumble, grump, holler, inveigh, keen, kick, kvetch, maunder [chiefly British], moan, murmur, mutter, nag, repine, scream, squeal, wail, whimper, whine, whinge [British], yammer, yawp (or yaup), yowl
Synonyms: Noun
beef, bitch, bleat, carp, complaint, fuss, grievance, gripe, grouch, grouse, grumble, holler, kvetch, lament, miserere, moan, murmur, plaint, wail, whimper, whine, whinge [British], yammer
Antonyms: Verb
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Examples of squawk in a Sentence
Verb
The customers squawked about the high prices. Opponents of the project have been squawking.Noun
if we don't receive any squawks, we can assume the change was acceptable
Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
The first one, released to great commercial success in 2016, pulled off the dubious trick of turning these squawking projectiles into characters, each with its own wisecracks and neuroses. — Los Angeles Times, "Review: Exuberantly silly ‘The Angry Birds Movie 2' flies higher than the first," 12 Aug. 2019 Stewart, an ornithologist, deftly pulled the sometimes-squawking young birds out of cloth bags after they were picked from the nests by Shattuck. — Washington Post, "‘Beautiful noise’: These Bellevue birds are bound for Brazil," 29 July 2019 The first one, released to great commercial success in 2016, pulled off the dubious trick of turning these squawking projectiles into characters, each with its own wisecracks and neuroses. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Review: Exuberantly silly ‘Angry Birds Movie 2' flies higher than the first," 15 Aug. 2019 Two jays squawked in the juniper tree, then flitted away. — James Murren, latimes.com, "At Utah's Gooseberry Mesa, the joy and power of wilderness prevail," 13 July 2019 In one ear there is a murder of crying, squawking, annoying crows. — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al.com, "Auburn coach Gus Malzahn has doubters, but players believe," 19 July 2019 Naeher is not the type of goalkeeper who squawks at her back line the whole game. — Grant Wahl, SI.com, "Understated USA GK Alyssa Naeher Makes Her Women's World Cup Statement," 2 July 2019 As penguins squawk in the background and waddle around on small ridges, Boehme and his team look for seals to tag with sensors that will track the layer of warm water that’s thought to be melting Thwaites. — Stephen Witt, WIRED, "Fitted With Sensors, Antarctic Seals Track Water Temperatures," 25 June 2019 Intent on protecting her young, the Mooseheart eagle squawked at the interloper and chased him away. — Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, "A tale of lost love, mistaken identity, courageous single parenting — and bald eagles," 18 June 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Some chirp, squawk, chatter, slither, hiss or simply blow bubbles. — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, "Photos: Unusual pets sharing our Bay Area homes," 1 Aug. 2019 Since chicken coops seem to be the squawk of the town, options are really limitless. — Taylor Mead, House Beautiful, "These "Chicken Coop Mansions" Look Like Guest Houses," 21 May 2019 Hardly a few seconds go by without a bit punctuated by a clip from a popular song or a cartoonish squawk or some other audio accent. — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, "How Carrot Top Wins in Vegas (Yes, He Can Be Funny)," 6 May 2018 Romantic writers and painters have struggled to capture the wistfulness of that ocean air, the cloud shadowing those sunny skies; poets have called it forth with the squawk of the seagull. — Pat Cunnane, WSJ, "Goodbye to Summer, Just as It Begins," 5 July 2018 But palentologist Julia Clarke, while analyzing an ancient bird Vegavis iaai, which would have been alive during the reign of the Tyrannosaurus, discovered a syrinx, the organ that gives modern birds their wide range of honks and squawks. — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, "Dinosaurs Probably Didn't Roar, But Some Definitely Quacked," 13 Oct. 2016 She often was awakened by the squawks of wild turkeys trudging past her tent. — Cynthia Hubert, sacbee, "Homeless people are moving from the river to homes in the suburbs. Does this approach work?," 10 June 2018 There’s also the magic of being on the water, watching the sunrise from a boat through the Golden Gate, the squawks of the birds and the familiar smell of the old salt air. — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, "Salmon opener brings mysteries, chance of mayhem," 10 June 2018 But now, science might have an answer, sort of, in the form of chairs shaped like eggs and ceilings that bounce your own squawks back at you, forcing you to quiet down through a trick of acoustic psychology. — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, "How to Make Your Open Office Less Annoying," 9 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'squawk.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.