Example Sentences

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When they finally arrived, Milos, her husband and their cat, Squeaks, were only 70 miles from home in Haines, a small community up the Lynn Canal from Juneau.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2020

Squeaks and rattles seem a lot louder without engine noise to disguise them.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2018

Kohl Squeaks Through Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany for 12 years, was elected to a fourth term -- but just barely.

From Time Magazine Archive

The trouble with record breaking is that it can lead to Narrow Squeaks, and while we were still in California we had our first one.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

My father loved to set records: to be the last, the first, the fastest, to get through what he called Narrow Squeaks.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz