creak
Example Sentences
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She heard music everywhere: a spoon banging against a cooking pot, the honking of geese overheard, the creak and slam of a screen door.
From Salon • Jan. 19, 2026
But leading into the pandemic, Germany’s industrial base started to creak as car production slowed down and government investment stalled under former Chancellor Angela Merkel.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026
Because, for all this week's haka hoopla, for all the tourists' dominant history, this is a New Zealand team that creak when their predecessors - with 34 wins from 45 previous meetings - didn't.
From BBC • Nov. 1, 2024
Rumble, wheeze, groan, roar, whoosh, clank, thud, creak and repeat — this, for me, is the onset of bus reverie.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2024
Slowly, so the gate wouldn’t creak, she opened the goat pen and stroked the mother goat’s back.
From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins
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