Example Sentences

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Like the Ghost of Christmas Past, it isn’t transgressive so much as creakily evocative of dimly recalled transgressions.

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2016

At other times, some of the machinery behind Roach’s writing becomes creakily apparent.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2016

He missed his first shot, grabbed a rebound, ran a bit creakily and sat down after less than 90 seconds.

From New York Times • May 4, 2013

At the start, in a black suit, he looks like a knock-kneed, buttoned-up bureaucrat, arms tight by his side, fingers twitching, voice creakily restrained.

From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2013

Chicken lay flat on the merry-go-round as it spun creakily.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn