creaky
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It's not just at the airport that the transport network is creaky.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
The most creaky veteran played with the most aggression.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2026
Each forehand slice from the Spaniard was another test of creaky hips, ankles, and knees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026
I remember walking up the creaky stairs of the house to our room and feeling like I was walking somewhere with high elevation.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2025
Then he led me up a creaky wooden staircase to my room.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
As a mover, Springsteen was maybe a little creakier than in the other shows I’ve caught over the last decade, at least until he came across that dog in his path during “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2024
Morgan always designed his drama to be a "love letter" to the recently departed monarch, and it plays as such, even in these creakier new episodes.
From Salon ● Nov. 11, 2022
Still debonair if a bit creakier, Pépin turns 87 in December.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2022
As I got into my upper 30s, the boats kept getting lighter and faster and I kept getting older and creakier.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2017
“T2 Trainspotting,” to use its perplexing title, is slower and creakier than “Trainspotting.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2017
The 21-year-old, born Rodrick Wayne Moore Jr., has these strangely piercing hazel eyes that, when he’s skeptical, can make you feel like the creakiest boomer alive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2020
He was driving the creakiest, oldest and smallest Hyundai that I'd ever seen.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2018
But Wan has a gift for investing even the creakiest cliches with shivery élan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2016
In 1936, Hollywood staged one of its earliest – and creakiest – onscreen apocalypses in San Francisco, a melodrama about the city-leveling 1906 earthquake.
From The Guardian ● May 23, 2015
I lead the way, pointing to the creakiest steps so Fina will know to skip them.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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