creaky
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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
John McGinn and Donyell Malen carved through the creaky Tottenham defence with a rapid exchange of passes before Buendia lashed high into the roof of the net from 10 yards.
From Barron's ● Jan. 10, 2026
Amanda, 62, said: "We're the fossils now and we want the chance to make some memories of our own before we get too creaky."
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025
But that's a dark and creaky thing that moves like a snail and smells of sour milk.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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
The brutality of London’s tale has been softened, as have some of the creakier cultural attitudes.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2020
Once the backbone of a proud NFL franchise, Pittsburgh's defense has grown grayer, creakier, and slow as ketchup from a bottle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2015
Like many people, I suspect, I for years held my own ideas about how Swift ought to mature, based on a creakier notion of “quality songwriting” than her industry-savvy one.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2014
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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