croak

"There's no time for that. Glasgow on the weekend, mate, it's bouncing," the Scot said with a slight croak in his voice.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

There’s a wicked irony in micromanaging your entire life on Earth only to croak and have your soul potentially jettisoned to some formless state of being, entirely unknown to mere mortals.

From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2025

The stock market is crashing, there’s a war in Europe, everyone on “This is Us” is about to croak.

From New York Times ● May 22, 2022

The cry of adults is more like the croak of a frog or the sound of a weed wacker that won’t quite start than that of a songbird, she said.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 2022

Now there were no birds to sing, no squirrels to chitter, no frogs to croak, no fish to play in the forest pool.

From "Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust" by Eve Bunting

Still, Alcock reacts with exactly the right note of disdain: “Cool,” she croaks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

Then he croaks the hook from the album’s first single, “Houdini,” a riff on the chorus of Steve Miller’s “Abracadabra”:

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2024

A healthy coral reef is noisy, full of the croaks, purrs, and grunts of various fishes and the crackling of snapping shrimp.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024

These beady-eyed amphibians can be found on the banks of noisy streams throughout China, where the rapids would drown out ordinary croaks and chirps.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 11, 2024

The woods were loud with strange sounds and chirps and croaks, like a wall of noise coming out of the trees.

From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio

"Vooaaria!" the bird croaked, a concoction of sounds that resembled a drunken old man.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

Frogs croaked from nearby waterholes, joining the chorus of spectators who hollered as the announcer introduced their favorite racers — along with their laundry lists of sponsors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2025

They thought she was joking when she croaked a response - but she told them it was her real voice.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2023

“What’s different? You are different …” I croaked out.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2023

Bullfrogs croaked in a feverish dirge, while larger game, alarmed by my trespass, thrashed through the underbrush, making me feel as though I was being pursued on all sides.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

“As we got to the end of the season losing these games, it was just croaking me,” Kraft says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026

Maybe that’s not the most dignified way to go, but for Annette and others like her, it’s better than croaking in the heat of the desert sun.

From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2025

Because of this, and the fact that it makes some people sound like they are on the verge of tears, some doctors once believed that the croaking or breathy vocalizations were tied to psychological trauma.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2024

In one case, the Telegraph reports, a couple in the French countryside was ordered to get rid of a pond because the sound of croaking frogs annoyed the neighbors.

From NewsForKids.net ● Mar. 13, 2024

But no one came, and her shrieking only frightened Aziza, who began to cry again, a weak, croaking sound.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini