creaking

How To Use creaking In A Sentence

• That creaking sound you hear? 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
• 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 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.
• Our old format was creaking under the strain of multiple postings every day.
• It is a country dominated by high peaks and wide flat stretches of lava field, powerful waterfalls and creaking glaciers.