Creak

//kɹiːk//

"Creak" in a Sentence (16 examples)

The floorboards creak a bit when you walk across them.

Tom turned around when he heard the floorboard creak.

East, West and squally South-west, with a roar, / swoop down on Ocean, and the surf and sand / mix in dark eddies, and the watery floor / heave from its depths, and roll huge billows to the shore. / Then come the creak of cables and the cries / of seamen.

When it's windy, the leaves of the old oak rustle and its branches creak.

Inside Madison's old Washburn Observatory, a fat little engine rumbles away, pulling a series of gears that creak open the facility's shutter.

Ziri heard the door to the cabin creak open.

Ziri heard the door creak open.

Jonas heard a loud creak.

Leon heard a creak.

The wind made the branches creak.

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Then when the four ropes were arranged the coffin was placed upon them. He watched it descend; it seemed descending for ever. At last a thud was heard; the ropes creaked as they were drawn up.

He heard the creaking of the bolt as it came slowly back, and at the same moment he found the monkey's paw, and frantically breathed his third and last wish.

Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry.

I miss the polished brass, the powerful black horses, The drivers creaking the seats of the baroque hearses, […]

Fascinating though this high-minded re-reading was, certain crucial joints of the play creaked a good deal under the strain.

The whole basis of feudalism, especially in the more intensively farmed champion arable landscapes of the Midlands, was starting to creak.

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