Overhead, unseen birds screech and hoot among the treetops, and palm leaves rattle like paper in the breeze.
After the usual screech and squawk sounds ordinarily associated with a modem connection, e-mail is downloaded and received.
It does screech a lot and we just hope someone will hear it.
Take a shuttle bus (about 20 minutes) from the village to access the sledding route, that traverses floodlit tunnels, hairpin turns and screech-to-a-stop straightaways.
Yet this was like no owl I had ever heard before: not the furry hoot of a tawny or the screech of a barn owl.
The plastic would screech loudly when it emerged from the machine.
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Opponents will screech not unreasonably that he is cutting the overall amount that the state spends per pupil while subsidising parents who already send their children to private schools.
New York City is making extensive preparations, hundreds of flights have been canceled, and life will pretty much screech to a stop on the East Coast any minute.
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The multitudes of bond haters continue to screech about how overvalued Treasurys and investment-grade and high-yield corporate bonds are, but some split-rated bonds deserve to be in your portfolio.
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The moment that Greece defaults, its bonds will no longer be eligible for use as ECB collateral, the Greek banking system will collapse, and this process will screech to a halt.
He did not know anything beyond the hiss and screech of fighter planes passing overhead and the missiles falling, the bears bellowing in another part of the fortress, and the sudden silence of the birds.
As the Suwanee Quintet sang gospel tunes, Brown -- decked out in a black leather jacket with stars and stripes down the sleeves -- grabbed the microphone and added his signature screech to applause from the crowd.
U.S. business leaders are more tightfisted than earlier this year, worrying some folks that a major growth driver of the shaky U.S. economy will screech to a halt if companies hoard cash instead of spending it on new plants, equipment and technology.
U.S. money-market funds that provide short-term credit to European banks will suffer major losses (about one third of their bank loans are in Europe.) And the operations of big U.S. companies that hold European bonds, or rely on short-term credit, will screech to a halt.
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And so it's hardly worth complaining that the cafe chairs make an awful screech when dragged on those concrete floors, and that there's still a line to the ladies room at intermission when the audiences of two of the three theaters come out to stretch.
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Nowadays, people just jump out of the dark all of a sudden and screech (cheap scare) or creatively disembowel screeching second-string actors (more gross than actually frightening.) Couple that with a veneer of macho stylishness, and you've got yourself a relative facsimile of a motion picture.
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