croak

Example Sentences

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She has an angelic voice, and Bob has this craggy kind of Blues man’s croak.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2024

Purdue, unlike Virginia, which lost by 20, kept a lukewarm hope into the closing minute, only to see it croak in disarray and send the Knights in blue charging and dancing onto the floor.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2023

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

Thorn straightened up and nodded, and Seven couldn’t help but think how hard it must be for Thorn to watch people she cared about almost croak.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega