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Recent Examples of croak
Verb
This is a Joker whose seen things, who has lived a hundred lives, who hobbles around like a dang-ass freak and croaks out a weird lizard laugh between smacks of his weird lizard lips. Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024 At last, being informed that her ex had croaked inspired Donna to tearfully sign her DNR. Charlie Mason, TVLine, 10 Oct. 2024
Noun
Until one of them croaks, and the film jumps forth in time once again. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 26 Oct. 2024 Another star of the haunted entertainment industry is Little Red Hiking Ghost, a classic J-horror apparition in a red hoodie whose hair completely covers her face and who speaks only in hollow croaks. Katie Rife, IndieWire, 27 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for croak
Recent Examples of Synonyms for croak
Verb
  • Cannon complained to Delta and to the Department of Transportation, which regulates airlines.
    Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 17 May 2025
  • The expression was being used by representatives of some rather polarizing businesses, such as private prisons and fracking operators, who complained to Mr. Brooks, the acting comptroller of the currency, that their bank accounts were being closed without warning.
    Rob Copeland, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • About 1,600 people get sick and 260 die each year from listeriosis, according to the CDC.
    Mike Snider, USA Today, 17 May 2025
  • In the early morning on May 25, Grayson died by suicide.
    Mac Engel May 16, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 May 2025
Verb
  • The forecast comes after several devastating hurricanes battered the U.S. last year, including Helene, which killed 241 people across five states in September.
    Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 25 May 2025
  • It has been killed by the near impossibility of buying a home in the current market and the economic challenges that force them to scramble to keep up with the cost of living and delay their plans to form their own families.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 May 2025
Verb
  • This time, his assignment takes him to Serbia, as he is tasked with assassinating the merciless General Mile Valstoria (Peter Linka).
    Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 10 May 2025
  • The group is suspected of assassinating the majority of the more than 133 indigenous social leaders killed in northern Cauca between 2016 and 2024.
    Elizabeth Dickinson, Foreign Affairs, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • The animals use complex clicks, squawks and whistles to call out to each other, fight and attract a mate.
    Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The show is thrilling as a sensory experience, humming with sinister percussive beats and the occasional muffled animal squawk in the distance.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Downstairs on the fairy-tale terrace, over an exorbitant Scottish cheese board, her mother and husband and sister were all screaming at one another.
    Patricia Lockwood, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
  • Videos posted to social media appear to show the mast of the ship crashing into the bridge just before 8:30 p.m., as passengers and nearby onlookers screamed, prompting an immediate search and rescue operation on the East River for the injured and overboard passengers.
    Alexandra Koch , Alexis McAdams , CB Cotton , Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2025
Verb
  • An estimated 62 percent of commercial colonies perished, according to a survey by the nonprofit Project Apis m.
    Joanna Thompson, The Atlantic, 20 May 2025
  • The plane explodes, all the commanders perish, and Nick dies along with them.
    Michileen Martin, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
Verb
  • At least 144 structures were destroyed and parts of Highway 44 were shut down, said St. Louis County Sheriff Gordon Ramsay.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 15 May 2025
  • In order to retrieve the original source code of the Entity and destroy it, Hunt has to risk life and limb and dive into icy arctic waters to a sunken Soviet submarine teetering 500 feet underwater.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 15 May 2025

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“Croak.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/croak. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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