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.
The story creaks along to a dull conclusion.
My sister went on to describe noises she'd been hearing, the regular old creaks and cracks that are heard in all houses and she'd also heard a clicking sound.
It is a slow-boiler of a film, an exercise in the suspense that spooky children, locked doors, creaking floors, mist, candles and shifty characters do best.
The display has a domestic character and the floorboards creak slightly. Times, Sunday Times
When he was still awake he thought he heard the faint creak of a floorboard, he immediately filed that away as Kira getting her midnight snack.
The creaking upstairs was starting to rattle me.
He waited for what seemed to be hours before the priest came up the creaking, lopsided ladder.
Daily trials on a creaking and antiquated public transport and roads system is just a part of it.
Now the capital has eight million inhabitants and the sewers are creaking at the seams. The Sun
Outside, green plastic garden furniture, creaking in the sun, each empty table complete with at least one crumb from a previous occupant and a chromed ashtray not quite empty.
Distant creaks and groans echoed eerily along the dark corridors.
the old boat was moving along creakily
The door creaked open and a furred snout poked out.
Eventually, it creaked to a juddering, shrieking stop and a huge door, rust-pitted, streaked with red and belled outwards with age ground slowly aside.
He raised his head with a start when a floorboard creaked from the hallway leading to the bedrooms.
Initially it seems that the ship is grounded as solidly as a breakwater, but after a while the creaks and groans are evidence of movement, however slight this may be.
Our old format was creaking under the strain of multiple postings every day.
The elevator creaked to a halt at the ground floor.
It didn't sound like the creaky door, or even footsteps on the dusty floor.
It is a country dominated by high peaks and wide flat stretches of lava field, powerful waterfalls and creaking glaciers.
Translation: Are there leaky faucets, shaky headboards, running toilets and creaky floors?
The cart creaked up on the street.
A creak; a sigh; is it just the evening breeze, or something more sinister? Archive 2008-10-01
I expect that the gate will be secured and that I will have to contrive some way to get through it, but when I press my hand tentatively against one side of the iron scrollwork, hinges creak. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
So now we come to the fateful month of July 1944, when the waters were rising along the whole periphery of the Nazi empire, where everywhere, in Speidel's words, "... the floodgates are creaking," to the day, the 20th, of the attentat; a climacteric in the history of the Third Reich of Hitler's relations with the Army, and of the rational direction of the German war effort. Barbarossa
MIDI technology and digital synths have replaced creaky old unreliable analogue methods.
I call it the “syncopated pedaling creak,” usually a sign that the locknut on a campy cassette is not tight enough. Technical FAQ with Lennard Zinn: Bike creaking solutions
The doors now creak at low speeds over bumpy roads. Times, Sunday Times
—In autumn, with a great creaking and a snapping of twigs, they break away from trunks grown thick with bark and phloem, which become husks with jagged tips, or later often topple from sheer grief. 2009 June
A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.
The interior of the cabin is appealing, though the low roofline means that this is more a vehicle for the young and fit, than for the old and creaky.
The wooden floorboards creaked as he walked down the corridor.
On the contrary, it turns to thoughts of sulphur tablets and camomile tea and other sickly or disagreeable circumventions of the "creakiness" of the human body. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends
His childhood was lost, at the age of ten, and on that creaky floor his manhood began.
It's every bit as chaotic and mad as London in its way, with a creaking, uncomfortably, rattly Metro system.
I looked to the left, the creaky stairs and the door shut tight.
He slowly crept up the creaky wooden stairs to the moldy second floor hallway.
If he was admitted, the iron grating ( "portcullis") rose slowly on its creaking pulleys, the heavy, wooden doors swung open, and he found himself in the courtyard commanded by the great central tower ( "keep"), where the lord and his family lived, especially in time of war. Early European History
Chairs creaked, and necks craned as every eye tried to catch a glimpse of the stranger.
He became aware of a creaking sound. Times, Sunday Times
My large ears twitched as I listened to the sound of the wood creaking inside of this house.
The gates creaked open just enough to allow the three riders to enter in single file.
Finally, the eccentric and creaking Greek justice system has accepted that Andy and his fellow enthusiasts are innocent.
She heard another thump, and then the creaking of floorboards, very faint, almost undetectable. LOST SUMMER
Careful to avoid making too much noise as I crept up the creaky stairs, I made my way to the one area of the flat that I'd not yet been: Tristan's quarters.
If this sheath becomes inflamed, the tendon can no longer move within it and the wrist becomes painful, creaking like old leather when it is moved. Times, Sunday Times
There was a second of hesitation, possibly as Meghan was preparing for another punch, and then a creak and a thud.
The big chair creaked delightsomely to the ears of Elly Precious. Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings
At length, we return inside and he bars the creaking door before retiring to his sanctum. Times, Sunday Times
And why adopt a format that is already beginning to creak with age? Times, Sunday Times
It stood near the window; its thick trunk, barkless, with a rotten heart, prevented the light from entering the room; the bent, black branches, devoid of leaves, stretched themselves mournfully and helplessly in the air, and shaking to and fro, they creaked softly, plaintively. The Man Who Was Afraid
The wooden frame creaked and settled as she sank down into the middle of the bowl.
The train of merchant's wagons continued slowly into the gate, their wooden axles creaking loudly in the hot stagnant air.
The top stair creaked as she went upstairs and the noise woke up her mother.
Now the capital has eight million inhabitants and the sewers are creaking at the seams. The Sun
We pulled the stairs to the attic down from the ceiling and made our way up the creaky ladderlike steps. Full Frontal Nudity
Buffy's leather pants creaked as she squatted down next to Angel.
Only the creak of the mast and the boom, the rippling of the sail and the gurgling of the passing water reached Miri's ears.
Noon found Tom far out on the National Road, creaking along over the yellow dust in a light wagon, between bordering forests that smelt spicily of wet underbrush and May-apples; and, here and there, when they would emerge from the woods to cleared fields, liberally outlined by long snake-fences of black walnut, the steady, jog-trotting old horse lifted his head and looked interested in the world, but Tom never did either. The Two Vanrevels
The Holtham Commission, one of the most thorough reviews of the distribution of public expenditure in the UK, concluded that if the formula used to apportion public expenditure in England were applied to the devolved administrations, Wales would receive nearly £400m more per annum, and Scotland around £4bn less, compared with the apportionments dictated by a creaking Barnett formula. We are still a nation divided by shameful economic injustice | The big issue
Somebody already addressed this elsewhere stating that the alleged "creakiness" numbers were contrived & exaggerated & mitigated by vehicle processing activity. The NASA Administrator Guessing Game Continues - NASA Watch
The door creaked and groaned in protest as she slowly pushed it open.
The doors now creak at low speeds over bumpy roads. Times, Sunday Times
The woman is a predatory siren whose fierce, angular movements are accompanied by the creaks and grinds of unoiled door hinges.
The stairs creaked and groaned and rattled in protest.
The ancient floorboards overhead creaked and groaned. Ominous
The breeze grew in strength, the flags shook, plastic bunting creaked.
Every single path to my cold, unspringy mattress involved creaking wood and 45-degree wobbling. MIT Admissions
Manager Jim Tracy instead sent pinch-hitter Ryan Doumit to the plate, and as a light rain began to fall, Cox sprang from the dugout and shuffled toward the mound, his artificial knees seeming to creak with each step. In the Time of Bobby Cox
A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.
His horse shifted its weight apprehensively, its muscles bunching and smoothing beneath the saddle, causing the leather to creak ever so slightly.
Now the capital has eight million inhabitants and the sewers are creaking at the seams. The Sun
Distant creaks and groans echoed eerily along dark corridors and seemed to expand into the circular chamber.
Jacob ascended the creaky stairs on his way to Peter's apartment.
Moving in one fluid motion, she opened the door and stepped inside, closing it behind her with a creak.
The low moan of a foghorn across miles of greyness, the slap of waves breaking against a gently rocking hull in the dark, the slow creak of rusting quayside machinery in the wind beckon through the haar.
And why adopt a format that is already beginning to creak with age? Times, Sunday Times
He crept back up the stairs, trying to avoid the ones that creaked.
A creak in the floorboards caused his sharp eyes to search the dark deck quickly.
I crept around my apartment, the floor under my warm beige carpet creaking under my weight with each step that I took.
She's wearing a skintight vinyl dress, chewing gum and grinning mischievously while rubbing her arms vigorously against her sides to make the dress creak and squeak. Times, Sunday Times
The wire-wove mattress creaked, and creaked again twice. The Far Horizon
If this sheath becomes inflamed, the tendon can no longer move within it and the wrist becomes painful, creaking like old leather when it is moved. Times, Sunday Times
If this sheath becomes inflamed, the tendon can no longer move within it and the wrist becomes painful, creaking like old leather when it is moved. Times, Sunday Times
And this comes on top of a system already creaking. Times, Sunday Times
Densification degrades the quality of existing urban space and places greater burdens on an already creaking infrastructure. Times, Sunday Times
He listened to the ship, hearing the creaking and the lap of water against the hull.
The door slid back with a loud whine and creak of the mechanical and electric gears.
The top layer was screwed down to the bottom layer in essence creating a one piece quiet, rigid, non-creaking floor.
When I first started I went to the Army and Navy Store and purchased a pair of ‘Police Boots’ They creaked and squeaked all the time I had them and I finally gave them up when the nails which held the soles on came up through the inside into my feet. Kit Freak « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
She merely lowered her head and trudged away, feeling eyes on the back of her head, listening to the sound of creaking wheels slowly diminish behind her. A Plague of Angels
Outside could be heard the creak and thud of damaged trees, and the thrashing of errant guttering and plastic garden furniture.
I heard gates creak open as I hugged a pillow to my ears.
He heard the bedroom door creak open and quickly palmed the note he had found.
This is a smart move, because otherwise the whole thing would be so creaky and old-fashioned that only the most determined Christie fan cum couch potato would watch it.
It has a most agreeable leathery smell, and a gentle creak which is very pleasant. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866
The gate gave a loud creak as he pushed it open.
I grew up in the frozen north, in a creaky old farmhouse with no central heating. Times, Sunday Times
When the anticipation lapsed into frustration, he relaxed his muscles, the bedsprings creaking under him as he eased over onto his back. Sleepwalkers
Instead of letting my writer’s imagination run wild when there’s a horrible creak from the depths of the house, I can just say to myself “cat” and not worry about. Sometimes Even Writers Need A Break From Writing at SF Novelists
Martin may have been vilified, but with his greying hair and creaky limbs, he is a pussycat in comparison to triggerhappy Barras.
While it is the sheer physicality of Mr. Hurt's performance that impresses most—he totters about the stage with the squeaky-shoed grace of the music-hall clowns that Beckett loved—you will be no less stunned by the sound of his creaky, rusty voice, which suggests a hermit who never has occasion to speak a word aloud for months at a time. The End Of the Line
A creaking centre is a potential crisis when the Pacific islanders explode into life. Times, Sunday Times
It’s pitch black, they are disoriented, and the only sound is a low rumble and creak from the belly of the ship. ‘Pandorum’ Trailer #2 = Socks Off « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
Kestilas voice floated through to him through the wooden door, the brown haired boy standing and causing a creak in the floorboards and a jangle of springs as he climbed into bed.
He had done his business: he got up, and without more ado creaked heavily out of the cell; the door closed. COUP D'ETAT
The cart creaked up on the street.
We heard the floorboards creaking in our room and my husband ran upstairs and caught his dad with his hand in my underwear drawer. The Sun
As a teenager we lived in a large, rambling old house which creaked and groaned like an old man's knees.
But in general, India's infrastructure is as creaking and run-down as ever.
The hallway creaked, the rain beat the roof like the clip-clop of a horse's hooves, and beds squeaked as children climbed wearily into them.
A creaking door [gate] hangs long on its hinges.
Perhaps I was dreaming – influenced by the sound of the wind whipping around outside the house, the building creaking and the rain tapping on the windows, but it seemed very real. Boing Boing
And Tati (in his 60s) shows no creakiness of age, either in daring stunts amidst zooming cars and busy highways or in the trademark elastic, forward-pointing stride of Mr. Hulot. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
Under her feet, she could hear the wooden stairs creak.
Officials said that it would improve efficiency and transparency as well as easing the burden on an already creaking legal system. Times, Sunday Times
The creaky machinery of the legal thriller makes you yearn for a big payoff - but no one, except poor Sheila, goes to jail.
The bed springs twanged and the wooden floor boards responded with a creak.
When they are successful a bell rings and a mechanical buddha lights up and makes a creaky obeisance.
Then only the distant rumble of the Elevated Railroad could be heard occasionally, or the far, seaward whistle of some steamer, or the scrape and screak of a street-car. The Rich Little Poor Boy
Subtle horns creak from enveloping static before becoming lost in an overbearing string arrangement.
The creaky sound of the blocks rubbing together and the icy, stale air that surrounded the seaside still remain a vague childhood memory in my head.
That improvement will also reduce congestion on the country's creaking 3G networks. Times, Sunday Times
The third stair creaked as I stepped on it.
The wooden cart creaked as it moved along.
And, in a strange, twisted way, I'm grateful that my twinges and aches and creakings seem often enough to concentrate all together on a single day.
Two more teenagers pushed a creaking wheeled cart supporting a huge frosted cake through the doors.
It creaked beneath his feet and he ignored the slippery surface.
Whoever has journeyed in a dahabiya up the old river will remember this song of the water-drawers, with its accompaniment, in slow cadence, of creakings of wet wood. Egypt (La Mort de Philae)
There was a rhythmic creaking from the rowlocks and a louder sound of water from under the bows.
The social care system was already creaking, it is now in danger of collapsing altogether. The Sun
And, of course, I got to remembering Monday wash days at home, clouds of steam billowing, the washboard clattering and the mangle creaking, lines of gleaming white washing hanging out to dry.
My heart thumped as I suddenly heard the outside screen door slowly creak open. Christianity Today
As I walk the halls, I nervously await one of the rattling tchotchkes to come crashing down onto the quaintly undulating creaky floorboards.
You'll see manuscript letters, her writing table and the creaking door that leads to the room where she wrote. Times, Sunday Times
We are already seeing the signs of the system creaking at the seams. Times, Sunday Times
The eerie wind began to sound like the wail of a banshee, the creaks and groans of the castle began to seem like footsteps stalking toward her.
The bar is creaky and crooked, with blood-red walls. Times, Sunday Times
Dark silhouettes lurched crazily in the flickering light, while the pub doors creaked and slammed threatrically in the wind.
For Wells, an electrical spark that arced across the white page, and for Conrad, each word creaking on the blocks, the woman pale before the moon, her eyes black as tornadoes at sea. Unmanned
In this age of virtual reality, audiences expect to be impressed and they were not disappointed, especially when the Beast's two robots with their creaks and clanks timed to perfection, bestrode the stage.
Both gemination and creaky phonation are a form of fortition. Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing
We entered the throng, found the small reception area and were soon climbing slightly creaky stairs to our room. Times, Sunday Times
Faint music came from another house beyond the trees; a carriage clopped past the distant gates; overhead a nightbird moaned dolefully; I could hear my own knees creaking as I crouched there, scratching the newly-healed bullet-wound in my backside and wondering what the deuce was wrong. Isabelle
The old knees were creaking a bit come Tuesday morning. The Sun
She forced her legs to move, creaking, one step at a time, thinking to herself: _The gypsy woman, the gypsy woman, the gypsy woman_ -- and trying to ignore the voices in her head that went on and on: Hex
The country's creaking railway system carries 20million people a day. The Sun
Some of the apparent creakiness of the plot turns out to be a bit of a double bluff, and the book rattles along quite painlessly for some 500 pages.
Lilith walked with grace and ease down the short corridor, looking around in revulsion at the peeling mauve wallpaper and creaking old floor.
The floors seemed uneven and walking around in the room caused the walls to creak and groan.
The little iron gate, whose hinges were almost gone with rust, creaked and gnarred as it slowly opened to admit the approach of a young countryman. The Elect Lady
It takes me five to ten minutes to start enjoying it, to break through the creaky straight-jacket of inertia and hit my stride, but I did and took the lead up hill and down path and up hill again, where we spied saddlebacks and other birdlife.
Any change in a system that is creaking from old age has to be welcomed.
The wooden cart creaked as it moved along.
The bed springs twanged and the wooden floor boards responded with a creak.
The lifeboat is already creaking at the seams and likely to have to mount many more rescues as company failures rise. Times, Sunday Times
It was a weird old house, full of creaks and groans.
I am surprised, Steerforthalthough your candour does you honour, said Mr. Creakle, does you honour, certainlyI am surprised, Steerforth, I must say, that you should attach such an epithet to any person employed and paid in Salem House, Sir. VII. My “First Half” at Salem House
And neither will the Euro, because the underlying economy that supports the Euro is creaky and undynamic. Bernanke on the Jobless Recovery, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
For miles and miles men were quickly at work sinking holes into the ground; camp-fires were flaming; teamsters were inspanning and outspanning their oxen, and wagons were creaking. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
Fortunately, path 12 emerges near Ye Olde Smoke House, everyone's image of an antique, oak-beamed country inn, complete with horse-brasses, snuggeries, and creaking leather sofas.
Bookshelves creak under the weight of books written by business gurus on how to manage a company, how to increase personal potential and to achieve success
One creaky old man shouted in frustration, ‘I just cannae understand ya, hen!’
And if he wins, he allows the free market to energize and renew a huge creaky behemoth.
Pushcarts 7creak from house to house along the posh suburban roads, and every bad snowstorm is a disaster.
Australian websites are simultaneously creaking with demand for the winter Ashes series. Times, Sunday Times
Those scripts had occasional moments of truth but were stuck in a rut of creaky sentiment and melodramatics.
I hope to see polar bears too, but witnessing the ocean solidified into blocks that creak and growl as the ship's ice-strengthened hull ploughs a furrow is enough of a treat.
As he stepped off the last creaking stair and onto the cold stone floor of the cellar, a shiver ran up his spine.
The social care system was already creaking, it is now in danger of collapsing altogether. The Sun
Officials said that it would improve efficiency and transparency as well as easing the burden on an already creaking legal system. Times, Sunday Times
The floorboards creaked as she walked across the room.
The creak and click of door and padlock roused Midnight.
I grew up in an old, creaky New England colonial farmhouse set up on a drumlin. Random stuff
The greatest single British contribution to the defeat of the Third Reich, and possibly the greatest British achievement of the past century, is known to us as Bletchley, the unprepossessing country house halfway between Oxford and Cambridge, where an eccentric team of mathematicians, musicians, and classicists broke what the Germans had with good reason believed to be the unbreakable codes of their Enigma machines, and in the process pretty well invented modern computing: the huge creaking and whirring "bombes" of Bletchley, running over endless patterns and permutations, were the forebears of your laptop. Box
The metal rungs creaked and groaned as she put her weight on them, but held firm against the stone wall.
Great news if you're creaky at the knees. BE YOUR BEST: How Anyone can become Fit, Healthy and Confident
When they are successful a bell rings and a mechanical buddha lights up and makes a creaky obeisance.
Buggies and omnibuses swarmed the street, filling it with the clop of hooves and creak of wheels and thick, sharp smell of dung.
The social care system was already creaking, it is now in danger of collapsing altogether. The Sun
She threw back her bedcovers and tiptoed over to her desk, making sure she avoided the creaky floorboard under the ragged rug.
His love for fire fighting is promptly extinguished one day when the big-bellied porker runs into a burning warehouse and falls through the creaky floor.
The display has a domestic character and the floorboards creak slightly. Times, Sunday Times
The wind filled the sails and the ropes creaked and stretched with the strain as the ship ploughed through the waves.
You can feel the rumblings and hear the pavement creaking and grinding underneath your feet. Christianity Today
The elevator came to a stop at the top floor and Anna turned to face the doors as they creaked open.
But there are so many other legendary challenges out there, and so few years left before my creaky old knees finally scream'you cannot be serious! Times, Sunday Times
He had an odd complacency and crooked smile for the creakiness of fate which had returned him here.
Big blockbuster films tend to creak under their own weight and the momentum of them, for an actor, sometimes just gets in the way.
No knocks, creaks or rattles either, indicating that it's been well screwed together.

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