creak

How To Use creak In A Sentence

• That creaking sound you hear? Times, Sunday Times
• The floorboards creak in all the right places, too. Times, Sunday Times
• A half-timbered family hotel with rooms off a creaky wooden balcony running round two sides of a courtyard.
• The creak of the wooden pontoon was such a sad, lonely sound.
• Drop dead gorgeous pictures, a text that's zippy and slick, fun voices, and lots of words like "crick", "crack", and "creak". Archive 2006-04-01
• A creaky door led to a small shower room with plush red towels. Times, Sunday Times
• Old dandies with creaking joints tottered along Piccadilly to their certain doom; young clerks in the city, explaining that they wished to attend their aunt's funeral, crowded the omnibuses for Kensington and were seen no more; while my mother tells me that excursion trains from the country were arriving at the principal stations throughout the day, bearing huge loads of provincial inamorati. The War of the Wenuses
• Some postal workers specifically avoided the World Trade Centre because its upper floors were known to creak and sway in stiff winds.
• His boots creaked at every step, his starched uniform crackled and a sourish smell of sweat and leather became noticeable. Autumn
• The world sounded with the creaky, whispery voices of the trees and the low, grating language of the stones, and all was well.