Definition of “banshee”

Axl has new band around him, but they are tight, and he can still scream like a banshee.

Conrad talks about it - you know in Narcissus and Typhoon: I remember in a real storm, he says, you hear banshee wails, deep drumbeats...

Flinging herself on the sofa, wailing like a banshee ,' Maggie laughed.

Hurricane Floyd came screaming in to Cape Fear yesterday like a wailing banshee.

I think they need to feel empowered so they have the confidence to scream like a banshee , fight like a wild cat and run like the wind.

In March 1998 Lohengrin was greeted with ` banshee shrieks of apparently homicidal intent' against Robert Wilson.

In front of us, Gerard Malanga and Edie Sedgwick danced with wild banshee abandon, acting out the song images.

Right as we got to the top near the exit door, Maggie let loose a banshee yell and fell backwards down the stairs.

The wind was howling between the trees, the sound sometimes rising to a banshee wail, sometimes falling to a moan.