croak

Example Sentences

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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

Frogs croak and croak, their mating calls echoing in the air.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2023

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

“It was ravaged but always in key,” he says of Lanegan’s signature croak.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2022

She tried to shout “Joe!” but her voice thickened to a croak.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck