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.
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
—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.
It's every bit as chaotic and mad as London in its way, with a creaking, uncomfortably, rattly Metro system.
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
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.
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
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
At length, we return inside and he bars the creaking door before retiring to his sanctum. Times, Sunday Times
The train of merchant's wagons continued slowly into the gate, their wooden axles creaking loudly in the hot stagnant air.
Now the capital has eight million inhabitants and the sewers are creaking at the seams. The Sun
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
Every single path to my cold, unspringy mattress involved creaking wood and 45-degree wobbling. MIT Admissions
A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.
Now the capital has eight million inhabitants and the sewers are creaking at the seams. The Sun
I crept around my apartment, the floor under my warm beige carpet creaking under my weight with each step that I took.
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 top layer was screwed down to the bottom layer in essence creating a one piece quiet, rigid, non-creaking floor.
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
When the anticipation lapsed into frustration, he relaxed his muscles, the bedsprings creaking under him as he eased over onto his back. Sleepwalkers
A creaking centre is a potential crisis when the Pacific islanders explode into life. Times, Sunday Times
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
But in general, India's infrastructure is as creaking and run-down as ever.
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
Officials said that it would improve efficiency and transparency as well as easing the burden on an already creaking legal system. Times, Sunday Times
That improvement will also reduce congestion on the country's creaking 3G networks. Times, Sunday Times
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.
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.
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
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
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
Lilith walked with grace and ease down the short corridor, looking around in revulsion at the peeling mauve wallpaper and creaking old floor.
Any change in a system that is creaking from old age has to be welcomed.
The lifeboat is already creaking at the seams and likely to have to mount many more rescues as company failures rise. Times, Sunday Times
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.
Australian websites are simultaneously creaking with demand for the winter Ashes series. Times, Sunday Times
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 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 social care system was already creaking, it is now in danger of collapsing altogether. The Sun
You can feel the rumblings and hear the pavement creaking and grinding underneath your feet. Christianity Today
Right at this moment wind is storming, windows are rattling, tree branches are creaking, and leaves are quivering.
Creakings and the rumbling of wheels could be heard and occasional bumps jolted me.
The old knees were creaking a bit come Tuesday morning. The Sun
It is a country dominated by high peaks and wide flat stretches of lava field, powerful waterfalls and creaking glaciers.
The wind took the multitudinous sounds, -- the cries of frightened birds, the creaking trees, the snap of breaking boughs, the crash of falling giants, the rush of the rain, the drumming of the hail, -- enwound them with itself, and made the forest like a great shell held close to the ear. To Have and to Hold
A creaking door [gate] hangs long on its hinges.
He became aware of a creaking sound. Times, Sunday Times
By slipping some beer-can shims between the hinged top piece and the two knurled semi-cylindrical clamshell halves it clamps over, the slippage, as well as an annoying creaking sound, disappeared.
In those creaking clippers of an extinct era, fire at sea was a terror always in the thoughts of passengers and crew. GOTHIC PURSUIT
The creaking of the heavy canvas above her as the crew began to set sail brought her back to the present with a jump.
The creaking action heroes are back on screen for the tale about a group of mercenaries who head to South America to try to overthrow a dictator. The Sun
And what little there was, — the slapping of a few reef-points and the creaking of a sheave in a block or two, — was ghostly under the hollow echoing pall in which we were swathed. Chapter 25
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
Labour courts and arbitration systems are creaking under the weight of new cases.
A creaking door [gate] hangs long on its hinges.
We are already seeing the signs of the system creaking at the seams. Times, Sunday Times
A racket from a couple streets over, like a snowplow creaking. ROUGH JUSTICE
When he talks, his body twists back and forth, creaking the swivel chair.
From a regional base in the lakeside town of Sevan -- a collection of glum Soviet buildings scattered over a high plateau, with a decrepit ferris wheel strangely creaking in the wind at its entrance -- young Belgian psychologist Dr. Luk Van Baelen leads me on a journey into the dark world of the uncared-for mind. 'Writing On The Edge' Excerpt: Paradise Lost For Armenian Refugees
Half the time, all Charles needs to do is point the camera: the Institute for Science and Halacha, in Jerusalem, is a mad nest of creaking, puffing, Sabbath-circumventing machines — no commentary required. An Atheist Walks Into a Bar …
A slight nudge of the boat sent the wooden piles scringing in a long, creaking protest.
The fanfare began, and the elaborate gold embroidered doors opened, the hinges creaking from the weight.
In parts of the country the system is creaking at the seams. Times, Sunday Times
Wearing one of my mother's favourite dresses in hopes to conciliate the tensions of the previous day, I walked with a light step down the creaking staircase.
That system is also creaking to a halt, with plunging enlistments and retentions.
Kriek said the roads had deteriorated steadily, transport services were "creaking" because of old buses, and little progress had been made with electrification. ANC Daily News Briefing
That creaking sound you hear? Times, Sunday Times
For we were drawn back from the pursuit of the strange boat by the creaking of the davits, and arrived at the Lancashire Queen just as the Italians were lowering their skiff. THE SIEGE OF THE 'LANCASHIRE QUEEN'
The main election issue is reform of Japan's creaking pension system.
The old knees were creaking a bit come Tuesday morning. The Sun
With the creaking sound of a tired sprocket, I looked up to see Larry Beecher ride by on his ten speed bike for the third time in five minutes; head bent in a slow, yet purposeful pace, pedaled by fifteen dollar tennis shoes, shock white socks stretched with perfection to the knee caps, 70s-style brown sport shorts, yellow mesh tank top, low-worn baseball cap and a pair of mirrored aviator sunglasses. Yard Sailing
Will the internet kill off our creaking contempt laws? Times, Sunday Times
Astley recorded the pastoral sounds of an Oxfordshire Sunday in summer - birds singing, bells ringing, donkeys braying, gates creaking - to accompany her piano-and-flute soundtrack of a day's journey into night.
Rich made a rasping sound in his throat vaguely like the creaking of bed springs, followed by a lewd slurping noise.
Several times the man collapsed, though he rose again and kept scrambling, his muscles cramping and his old joints creaking.
And this comes on top of a system already creaking. Times, Sunday Times
At the byre end the old rowan-trees were creaking and groaning to the violence of the gale, the bourtree bushes were flattened near to the ground, and everywhere was white. The McBrides A Romance of Arran
And this comes on top of a system already creaking. Times, Sunday Times
This body of work idealizes the places I explore throughout Europe as enchanting lands of fantasy and fairy tale: stony and mineral-stained French farmhouses, creaking and battered old windmills from Greece, Spain and Holland, suspended white rabbits leaping through the air, and things that, if just for a moment, turn our dreams of sweet old world romanticism into something precious we can hold and keep. Susan Fogwell: An American Sculptor in Holland
Bones cracked and reknit themselves, filling the room with a sound like oaks creaking in a hurricane. Crossed
The constant 'creaking' noise in the Tok'ra tunnels, as if they are about collapse at any moment. Stargate SG-1 Watchathon - 'The Tok'ra' (S02E11)
A creaking door [gate] hangs long on its hinges.
From miles around, folks rode into Canadian on horseback and in creaking buckboards. THE AMERICAN WEST
The social care system was already creaking, it is now in danger of collapsing altogether. The Sun
London's creaking transport system has long been the major drawback to doing business here. Times, Sunday Times
Some of the windows had shutters that were eerily creaking in the slight breeze.
In these multichannel days, the creaking drama inexplicably unites one nation under television. Times, Sunday Times
The only sound he could hear was the quiet creaking of the wagon's wooden wheels as it trundled over the cobbled streets and the steady beat of his heart, loud in his ears.
All right,' said Drouet, creaking off in his good shoes toward the elevator.
The machine shuddered, then swayed as if trying to regain its balance, there was a loud creaking from the metal plates and the entwined canes, and suddenly, as if it were being sucked in by a luminous vortex, it went up making two complete turns, and no sooner had it risen above the walls of the coach-house than it recovered its balance, raised its head like a seagull, and soared like an arrow straight up into the sky. José Saramago - Excerpt from "Baltasar and Blimunda"
Now the capital has eight million inhabitants and the sewers are creaking at the seams. The Sun
In parts of the country the system is creaking at the seams. Times, Sunday Times
He crawled on hand and knees across the landing, the ancient boards creaking beneath him.
Homelessness services are creaking under the weight of numbers, cuts in funding and privatisation in health services.
Early Indian horror films tended to make use of creaking doors, hooting owls, whining dogs and howling winds - similar to the tools used by Britain's famed House of Hammer.
First, the EU's creaking institutions will be under severe strain as they try to deal with the sudden intake.
The sound behind him of the horses champing and snorting and the carriage creaking propelled him reluctantly up the stairs.
Listening closely she could hear the branches of the trees moving and creaking in the wind.
With eagerness one turns toward the east, with angry impatience one marks the unchequered darkness; the crowing of a cock, that sound of glee during day-time, comes wailing and untuneable — the creaking of rafters, and slight stir of invisible insect is heard and felt as the signal and type of desolation. The Last Man
The taverna was a low, squat structure of whitewashed plaster with a swinging wooden door through which lemon light poured beckoningly and with a creaking sign over its frontage, depicting a giant crab so elaborately carapaced it seemed pre - historic. Beneath an opal moon
Devizes Books Handel House, Sidmouth Street, Devizes, Wiltshire SN10 1LD, 01380 725944Lodged in a Grade II-listed Georgian house in a busy part of town, this is a large, well-lit space with red shelving creaking under the weight of books on the ground floor. Independent bookshops in south-west of the UK
His lips were compressed tightly together as the ship made a creaking turn.
Drums with single blows merging into a volley, resembling a creaking branch.
We'd lie awake at night, listening to the sound of the creaking bed frame straining underneath us. The Sun
Paul groaned, and made no answer; but even the creaking of the timbers could not disguise the repeated cleck-cleck-cleck, as the brandy from the bottle gurgled down his throat. The King's Own
The sound came again, a kind of creaking that reminded Bek of the ship's rigging working against spars and cleats. Ilse Witch
There's only one thing for it - we head back to the Music Box Theater and, despite the soupy heat, end up perched on fragile chairs beneath the creaking stage.
Perhaps the blame for our fascination with the violent acts of unhinged minds should be laid to rest at the creaking door of the Bates motel.
With a slow creaking of hinges, the door opened to admit cold air and a midnight visitor.
Most of us have visions of the perfect English summers day: hours by the river, picnics, riding creaking bicycles while church bells chime softly in the distance.
At length, we return inside and he bars the creaking door before retiring to his sanctum. Times, Sunday Times
That the system is creaking adds to the disquiet and also makes it easier for Labour to offer an alternative that does not look fiscally irresponsible. Times, Sunday Times
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
Sitting there he would often hear strange sounds echoing around him; the shifting of books or the faint creaking of shelves.
It may have been the sound of timbers creaking as the temperature dropped.
And this comes on top of a system already creaking. Times, Sunday Times
He became aware of a creaking sound. Times, Sunday Times
What's making that awful creaking sound?
The slightest sound, even a sneeze or the creaking of her basket woke her up.
The old knees were creaking a bit come Tuesday morning. The Sun
A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.
My experience is that this creaking occurs when the cassette becomes totally dry, particularly the freehub body. Technical FAQ with Lennard Zinn: Bike creaking solutions
Our boat sped close in beside the papyrus beds; near enough for the creaking of the water buckets of the shadoof, on their long, counter-balanced arms, to carry from the fields across the water. River God
At night I am transfixed by the gentle motion of the great hull accompanied by the hypnotic creaking of richly-grained wood.
It filled the wood of Kincreggan with sounds, with the rasping and creaking of branches and the rustle of leaves, and the road by the river under the gean-trees was strewn with the broken blossom. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
The lifeboat is already creaking at the seams and likely to have to mount many more rescues as company failures rise. Times, Sunday Times
The swan-neck cock made a slight creaking noise as it compressed the mainspring, then there was a click as the pawl took the strain and Hagman hinged the backsight up as high as it would go, then lined its notch with the blade-sight dovetailed at the muzzle. Sharpe's Havoc
Nonetheless, even before production has started, Tete's infrastructure is creaking.
I went downstairs to get a glass of water, the stairs creaking every time I moved.
The woman struggled to her feet when there was a loud creaking sound.
I creep downstairs, cringing at the creaking of every hardwood step as I make my way down.
When we can hear the engine spluttering and the axle creaking, the time has come to move. The Sun
In parts of the country the system is creaking at the seams. Times, Sunday Times
The ship rocked violently, groaning and creaking with the weight and buffeting of the waves.
We'd lie awake at night, listening to the sound of the creaking bed frame straining underneath us. The Sun
Walking up the old staircase he managed to step over the creaking floorboard at the top without spilling any paper.
Straining her eyes into the aphotic depths beyond the carved and painted pillars -- no two alike and all gaily colored like psychedelic barber poles -- she heard the whispery hiss of the torch as it burned in her hands and the faint, quick creaking of Antryg's belt as he moved here and there, drawing out a five-point star within the double circle around them. The Silicon Mage
Officials said that it would improve efficiency and transparency as well as easing the burden on an already creaking legal system. Times, Sunday Times
As they clattered into the street outside I heard voices of slaves, and the outer door creaking open.
High up, silver-winged gulls curved and dipped and called their creaking signals. Angel Island
There are creaking floorboards and views across the quad. Times, Sunday Times
All the anecdotes were new to us, the creaking chair-bound jokes fresh as this morning's lox.
The white paint on the porch was peeling, long years of standing was wearing away at the timber wood planks on the floor, creaking with every step.
No grinding or creaking; just the faint whistle of air through the steel mesh. Times, Sunday Times
She could hear the tree rustling and creaking, as if it fought to keep the cut in its taproot closed, the hook with it. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
The stairs were steep and creaking and he held on to the rail bolted to the wall.
The creaking of the hinges sounded very loud in that silence.
Frankly, if I were Sir Alex, I'd be leaping at the chance to sell a creaking derelict to my fiercest rivals for nearly £7m.
Crewmen scampered about, untying the gaskets on the yawl-rigged barge's tan sails, and halyards started creaking aboard other boats while mooring lines splashed over the side to be hauled up by longshoremen.
If there's a horror fan alive who does not inwardly cringe at the doom-laden sound of slow creaking, they must be deaf.
Their conversation was interrupted by the door creaking open.
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
The lifeboat is already creaking at the seams and likely to have to mount many more rescues as company failures rise. Times, Sunday Times
Elsewhere on the crowded network, surging passenger numbers and the creaking Victorian engineering make commuting a joyless experience for millions. Times, Sunday Times
There was a fast drop in temperature, a creaking sound echoed throughout the room, and then a smash.
At length, we return inside and he bars the creaking door before retiring to his sanctum. Times, Sunday Times
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 he rounded onto his block, he heard the sound of the swings creaking at the park.
He may be getting rid of ambling tearful goal-scapegoat Dimitar Berbatov, indolent Glenn Hoddle-lite Michael Carrick, juddering, creaking, back-firing defensive Rolls Royce Rio Ferdinand and apparently want-away ace grappler Nemanja Vidic. Football transfer rumours: Kasper Schmeichel to Bayern Munich?
Approaching the signal box he mounted the steps, the hand-rail creaking as he used it for support.
We'd lie awake at night, listening to the sound of the creaking bed frame straining underneath us. 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
A hasty pattering of carpet-slippered feet on the creaking snow, around the kirk, and there was the neatest little apple-cheeked peasant woman in Scotland, "snod" from her smooth, frosted hair, spotless linen mutch and lawn kerchief, to her white, lamb's wool stockings. Greyfriars Bobby
We’re bound to have that, but that’s the area where the creaking is caused by the newness, not by the fact that it’s a defective piece of machinery or there’s something wrong with the machinery. Archive 2008-05-01
The wood room had wooden furniture, panelling and creaking timbers. Times, Sunday Times
The dilapidated gate could not deter her, the creaking shutters could not dishearten her, the spider web-laced windows could not dissuade her. Three-Minute Fiction Favorites
Oh, yes, something has got to be did!" fleered Beef McNaughton, the davenport creaking under the combined tonnage of himself and Butch T. Haviland Hicks Senior
And as they stood there staring at each other, stymied, in the sunshine filtering down between the tall Parisian buildings, they heard the lively clopping of horseshoes and the creaking of large wooden wheels. Bubble in the Bathtub
In those creaking clippers of an extinct era, fire at sea was a terror always in the thoughts of passengers and crew. GOTHIC PURSUIT
Whole tribes of bones will be creaking into motion, and hearses will be summoned, and lapidary inscriptions will be scratched out and rectified.
They could hear the creaking of the davits and the commands of the officers. The Lost Poacher

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