Squeak

//skwiːk//

"Squeak" in a Sentence (15 examples)

Suddenly there was a sudden squeak somewhere. It was very sudden. Sudden... Try saying that word fifty times then using it in a sentence...

My new shoes squeak.

"Squeak", said the mouse.

My shoes squeak.

Much as a large animal like a lion produces a deeper roar than a tiny mouse's squeak, merging supermassive black holes create lower-frequency gravitational waves than the relatively small black holes LIGO and similar ground-based experiments can detect.

Sami heard the squeak of the front door opening.

Mennad was nicknamed "Squeak."

Some people follow their kids around with a camcorder as though every squeak is a star-studded performance.

Don't talk to your mom like that, pip squeak!

Have you ever heard a mouse squeak?

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"I had the very devil of a squeak for it," he went on. "I did the hurdles over two or three garden-walls, but so did the flyer who was on my tracks, and he drove me back into the straight and down to High Street like any lamplighter. […]

But I must warn you that chipboard floors are always likely to squeak. The material is still being used in new-builds, but developers now use adhesive to bed and joint it, rather than screws or nails. I suspect the adhesive will eventually embrittle and crack, resulting in the same squeaking problems as before.

If he be obstinate, put a civil question to him upon the rack, and he squeaks, I warrant him.

[…] allowing Parkinson to squeak into the final by a half-point margin.

France were transformed from the feeble, divided unit that had squeaked past Wales in the semi-final, their half-backs finding the corners with beautifully judged kicks from hand, the forwards making yards with every drive and a reorganised Kiwi line-out beginning to malfunction.

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