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Recent Examples of creak
Noun
Old ships can have sewage and/or smoke issues and creak at all times.—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025 Wooden floors creak at every step.—Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
Inside the Sámi church, centuries-old wood creaks under candlelight—while at Nutti Sámi Siida (a reindeer lodge offering traditional Sámi experiences), visitors sip warm lingonberry juice and listen to joik songs.—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025 As the jurors exited the courtroom, the only sound was the creak of the swinging gate.—Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 15 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for creak
In what might be a revenge move a la Taylor Swift, Walmart buying the mall can clear the pathway into the market far more easily than getting approvals and building a site from scratch.
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Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
20 Oct. 2025
The business became known for its variety of authentic pierogi made from scratch — offering about 20 flavors ranging from traditional potato and cheese to sweet options like cherry and prune.
Historical-romance authors love the British peerage system so much that bookstore shelves groan with many, many more dukedoms than the two dozen or so that actually existed in the United Kingdom of the 19th century.
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Karen Ostergren,
The Atlantic,
13 Oct. 2025
Jones was groaning, and the witness then heard the male subject, who was wearing a blue hooded track suit with his hood over his head, leaning over Jones.
The Los Angeles Chargers and Miami Dolphins had a close game in Week 6, one that ended the Chargers squeaking out a 29-17 win, improving to 4-2 while the Dolphins dropped to 1-5.
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Anne Erickson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025
Wolfsburg, after beating Paris Saint-Germain 4-0 last week, barely squeaked past Norwegian side Valarenga thanks to a penalty awarded in the eighth minute of stoppage time.
But no matter how much Trump and Johnson and other MAGA go-alongs whine, the right of the people to peaceably assemble is right there in the First Amendment.
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Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
20 Oct. 2025
Common signals include sniffing, circling, squatting, or whining.
Kirbi, that rasp is so beautiful at the top of your register.
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Jessica Lynch,
Billboard,
21 Oct. 2025
Her strong, confident country voice shone through immediately in her performance of this Judds song, with just enough rasp to really give it some edge.
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