How To Use Croak In A Sentence

In some places it is primeval and wet, where streaky barked eucalyptus strive upwards through dripping mists alive with frog croaks.
I had a sore throat and could only croak.
‘I wish I could be like you,’ she croaked, her eyes half-closed with unshed tears.
My voice is hoarse and croaky, my hands hurt and I'm still shaking!
“Hold on there, sug,” he croaked, pronouncing the endearment like the first part of the word sugar. Water Song

The tide slapped against the dock wall, and seagulls croaked as they bobbed on the waves, or flew above their heads.
My thoughts, however, stubbornly refused to cling to the issue and when a hoarse croak broke loose from high above me, I started violently.
Could Bisbee have referred to some other Jim who had "croaked" recently? The Avalanche
Forrest had had to admit that the plan she and Croaker had cooked up, though unortho - dox and dangerous, was the best shot at getting inside the Leonforte organization. Second Skin
He filled Croaker in on the possible linkup between the Yakuza, Avalon Ltd, Torch and Delacroix. FLOATING CITY
A toad croaked in the distance breaking the eerie silence that haunted the halls of trees and earth.
Sometimes a phosphorescent gleam played over the stagnant pond, into which the terapin plunged heavily at their approach; while on the neighbouring banks the frogs of all degrees croaked forth their inharmonious chant, making the scene more hideous, and certainly adding greatly to the sense of gloom which it inspired in those who penetrated it. The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. I
Practically everyone I meet these days seems to have bleary eyes, scarlet noses and a croaking voice.
The bonxie surveyed me coldly, raising dark wings and issuing a harsh double croak from its hooked, halfopen beak. Times, Sunday Times
A second croak tore like a whip-lash through the silent forest.
The croak of the great blue heron sounded again; then far away, mysterious and spirit-like, floated a soft _qua, qua, qua_ -- the cry of the least bittern out of the heart of the swamp. Roof and Meadow
He opened his mouth to speak, but he only croaked. A Simple Case
The President croaked a response as he wrote out an executive order.
The open window let in the sound of evening frogs croaking in the nearby swamp.
When my eyelids met, a croaky voice opened them again.
He croaked his apology.
As one of the mayor's "toadies," your croak must be considered for what it is. Courierpress.com Stories
The inshore division recognizes eight species: croaker, black drum, flounder, gafftop catfish, gar, redfish, sheepshead, and speckled trout.
The took a compass bearing for the direction of the croaking and eventually reached stagnant, muddy pools, thick with a scum of dead insects.
At last, though, he was forced to admit that children would not have run so far, and he circled back toward the cabin, still calling intermittently, in hoarse, strangled croaks. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
In general, vocalizations are varied and include: trumpeting, whistles, twitters, honks, barks, grunts, quacks, croaks and growls.
Through a clever process of hunching herself over and putting on a croaky voice she has actually managed to increase her age by an awe-inspiring 7 million years.
These pouches are called "vocal sacs," and no doubt aid in intensifying these animals 'croak, which is so powerful that (on account of it and because of the country where they are common) they have been nicknamed "Cambridgeshire Nightingales. The Common Frog
Who dareth name the fiend?" croaked an awful voice, whereat Black Lewin halted, gaped and stood a-tremble, while beneath steel cap and bascinet all men's hair stirred and rose with horror; for before them was a ghastly shape, a shape that crouched in the gloom with dreadful face aflame with smouldering green fire. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
In this paper, it is first reported that a new disease caused by one kind of endoparasitic ciliate has existed among the cage-cultured large yellow croakers in Luoyuan Bay, Fuzhou, China.
It was plain that this person, in the course of her reflections on life, was regarding her own case, and had arrived at the conviction that in order to preserve herself from the mockeries of life, she was not in a position to do anything else but simply "croak" -- to use her own expression. Best Russian Short Stories
But his memory was already organizing itself, and he barked, though it came out a croak, `Townsend. THE MOAT AROUND MURCHESON'S EYE
Finally, there was the day in 2002 when he heard a croaky voice behind him: ‘Keep a straight line, sonny!’
My Dad was a Southerner so his favorite Sunday breakfast always included some fried fish (whiting, porgy, Virginia spot or croaker), with grits, scrambled eggs and cheese and corn bread. Dining With Mis Lil: Father’s Day Potato Salad «
Two years later, using wide-band recording equipment, Feng and his colleagues discovered that the frogs were also croaking in ultrasound - sound vibrations beyond the limit of human hearing.
All three of these croaky crooners take two turns in the lead vocalist's rocking chair.
He unapolegetically hasn't twelve-stepped his way into old age; indeed, at this point in his life, he'd probably croak if he stopped.
The auditorium was filled with barks, meows, quacks, clucks, hisses and croaks as more then 50 animals were judged on their sweetness, uniqueness, tricks, costumes, behaviour and appearance.
With all the senses tingling, you can hear the hippos at the watering hole; the croak of the bullfrogs; smell the dank scent of the cooling earth and anticipate, with trepidation, a prowling lioness.
I just opened my mouth to try and speak and all that I could manage was a rasping croak.
Speaking in a croaky voice one student admitted, ‘we've all be drinking too much, staying up too late and eating rubbish.’
After surveying the "ongoings" from the safe point of a masthead, he came to the conclusion that the proceedings interested him no more, and with a dismal croak he flew off to the skeö, and, seating himself on the topmost point of its ruinous gable, commented in very uncomplimentary terms upon the ways of mankind. Viking Boys
And Miss Lucy Ashton, that grudged when an honest woman came near her — a taid may sit on her coffin that day, and she can never scunner when he croaks. The Bride of Lammermoor
The fish they would be for are croaker (hardhead), or bluefish. Does anyone have any good recipes for frying fish fillets?The fish they would be for are croaker(hardhead), or bluefish.
She could only croak because of her heavy cold.
Niver recalls pleasant vacations fishing for saltwater species like orange mouth corvina, sargo and gulf croaker. ‘Drying Up and Dwindling Away’
The crickets ceased from their sing-song chant, the wildfowl from their squabbling, and the raven croak broke midmost and died away in gasping silence. THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT
Disgruntled, for he'd been dozing, Scott croaked, ‘Seen what?’
My older brother Maniramji lost his voice in 1944 and could not even croak leave alone sing.
‘Yeah,’ Michael croaked, finding his voice at last, ‘I'm Michael.’
You know, if you say it enough times, it starts to sound like a frog croaking.
I'm bemused by the continual croaking and moaning that goes on about budgets.
The question came as a hoarse croak from the corner.
In his best days, Joe kind of croaked and screamed out his songs, but the words were at least recognizable. Home again…briefly | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
He croaked, his voice hoarse with the dampness, as a pitter-patter of soft raindrops danced over their heads.
Only Miss Everett "croaked," and, dearly as she loved her, Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story
He croaked a year later.
There are few obituaries more heartfelt than the one HST wrote for Rolling Stone when Nixon finally croaked.
She croaked out her last laugh and then began coughing again into her rags.
Clams and skates and croakers and jellyfish and fluke and toadfish and anything else with gills surrounded by water are all wild. Wild clams
Frogs croaked in the ditches; cicadas shrilled in the fields.
The 47-year-old Mr. Croak says the product sold in dribs and drabs at first. After the One-Hit Wonder
Pan fish such as whiting, croaker, gafftop, sheepshead and others are year-round possibilities. The Daily News - News
In general, vocalizations are varied and include: trumpeting, whistles, twitters, honks, barks, grunts, quacks, croaks and growls.
I figured the remote's batteries had croaked mid-click.
'Put it this way, the croaker 's a winter fish down them parts. AMAGANSETT
Disney World's Animal Kingdom team has sorted elephant calls into trumpets, snorts, croaks, revs, chuffs, noisy rumbles, loud rumbles, and rumbles.
In general, vocalizations are varied and include: trumpeting, whistles, twitters, honks, barks, grunts, quacks, croaks and growls.
Aresanjura laughed, a harsh croaking sound like the death rattle from a blood-choked throat.
-- Microakodontomys transitorius Hershkovitz, 1993, a Brazilian murid known from a single specimen (collected in 1986). Archive 2006-03-01
Ravens croak replies to the squeaks and cries of marmot and pika.
The boy's voice was croaky and his lips barely moved.
Whats more, one of my own favorite kitty cats, beloved and doted on as only a favorite kitty cat can be, recently croaked… I mean passed beyond!
It is at this stage that Zombie Isner starts to look like Zombie Mahut and the Zombie Umpire stops croaking and starts to chirrup like a grasshopper. Wimbledon 2010 live blog: 23 June
As for the so-called demoralization of the present day, this latter class are inclined to laugh at the croakers who look at things that way. Heart and Soul by Maveric Post
The frogs croaking in the lake were loud enough to drown out the performers.
Actually, the word quark is in the OED as a verb meaning ` croak, 'with 19th-century references to frogs, rooks, and herons. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4
Crickets sang in stereo and a distant croak of a frog interrupted the hum.
I almost jumped at the sound of Kevin's croaky voice.
He continues however to sit croaking at Ghent, chagrinned, discontented, and dispirited. Robert Morris
It made them strong and willful, and it made them blind and disfigured, and it spurred them to sing strange guttural songs in croaking voices that haunted the American night. Hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Hobo Matters
Ali gasped and looked up as a bullfrog croaked from the pond. To Hit a Woman (Lightly)
‘Alaster has been sighted, sir,’ he finally croaked.
Her eyes widened and she wanted to scream, but her throat was suddenly dry and only a hoarse croak escaped her throat.
He winced as if the words were somehow painful, and when he spoke, it was in a hoarse croak.
And out of the trees came great black ravens, hundreds of them, croaking like peals of doom.
It was the low rattling croak of crows hanging over us.
With a queer kind of croaking shriek, the memory of which disturbs my sleep even now occasionally, but which I intended to be a yell of rejoicing, I staggered to my feet, stumbled aft to the cockpit, and half leaped, half tumbled into it. The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise
Well, there's nothing quite as common as a summer cold, sniffling and burbling and croaking about the place like a London taxi driver on a foggy night.
They chase and frolic, tarry, turn loops; they make croaks, high cries, and rattling sounds.
And I'll be able to remember the first time I heard that croaky voice.
But he didn't "croak" -- instead, he waxed stronger, and toward evening the pangs of hunger and thirst drove him to consider means for escaping from his hiding place, and searching for food and water. The Mucker
Everyone knows that if you're calling in sick, the time to do so is first thing in the morning, when your voice is croaky and sounds its ropiest, regardless of the robustness of your health.
I croaked, woken from my recurrent dream of loading reams of information onto the computer, by a banshee wail that went on and on, somewhere in the very near vicinity.
She could only croak because of her heavy cold.
Joao's extraordinary expressive range reached from guttural croaks to coloratura trilling, with scatting and vocalizing in between.
Health studies also show fish populations, including sportfishing favorites like white croaker, bass and queenfish, continue harboring very high levels of DDT, which is linked to cancer in humans. Long Beach Press Telegram Most Viewed
Behind her, crickets scraped and frogs croaked; a bird cawed. Crusade
She could only croak because of her heavy cold.
The tide slapped against the dock wall, and seagulls croaked as they bobbed on the waves, or flew above their heads.
J.R. had just read this article in the San Antonio Express-News in which two University of Texas professors claim that in West Texas we refer to burlap bags as gunnysacks whereas in East Texas they are known as croaker sacks.
Her voice sounded like a deafened croak as she crouched by the girl's side.
We could smoke and no great aunt would smell us and croak.
The tenth cat had lost the ability to miaow through secondhand smoke and instead croaked through a voicebox, but to play it safe and not skew the results too favorably I decided to err on the side of caution and discount his vote.
In bays, rivers and lakes, predators like pike, walleye, white croaker, and largemouth bass accumulate the most mercury.
But Claire reported an occasion with Lazaro after I left Zambia when their attention was drawn by a greater honeyguide fluttering and croaking ahead of them. A Year on the Wing
I croaked, woken from my recurrent dream of loading reams of information onto the computer, by a banshee wail that went on and on, somewhere in the very near vicinity.
She finally reached a point where she could hear the voices over the sounds of the crickets and the croaks of frogs.
From his first, perhaps best book, "The Immense Journey," he showed a gift for transporting his readers across aeonic expanses—evoking the "croaking gloom of carboniferous swamps" and "the surf on Cretaceous beaches where now the wheat of Kansas rolls. Dispatches From the Natural World
He heard a hoarse croak and turned to his side.
I developed a horrid sore throat and ear-aches yesterday and, despite my best care last night and going to bed at 9 p.m. for a long and fairly good night's rest was for the naught this morning when I woke up with nothing but a "croak" for a voice! Archive 2008-03-01
As I looked at them ponderingly, a frog far in the back of the cave gave a discordant, echoing croak, which started the sulky and suspicious black boy who attended me into an abrupt exclamation of semi-fright; while a scrub fowl, scratching for its living overhead, dislodged a chip of granite which went clicking down the rocks. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
Aquatic products: Frozen or canned yellow croaker, hairtail, pomfret , peeled shrimp, inkfish, about 50 specifications.
Fish glacial delicacy basically is hairtail, breed yellow croaker, pomfret, flatfish, mullet, Spanish mackerel to wait.
Showing the same lifelessness she displayed on Dancing with the Stars, the reality starlet barely croaks out a lyric before walking out of the studio. Top Moments: Survivor's Crying Game and the Death of a Desperate Housewife
Crook tried to shout to them for help, but managed no more than a breathless croak. STAGE FRIGHT
I'm not in any way a Royalist, but I did feel like a right berk when I told others in the office that she's croaked, prior to looking in the content of the article.
A deadly fungus is making frogs croak on the tiny island of Montserrat. Fleeing Frogs from Montserrat
His voice is extremely charming, though it has a distinct croak (that can hardly be called husky or hoarse) that is rather fascinating. Molly Bawn
Each frog species has its own unique call or croak, and some create ribbits so loud they can be heard up to a mile away.
After a few moments of staring into his eyes, I finally managed to croak out, ‘Yeah… that's exactly what Aiden's like.’
'Help!' she croaked, her throat dry with fear.
The congee was a pellet mixture of bean curd, yellow croaker and water chestnuts.
My throat was so sore that it must have sounded more like a croak.
Adult halibut prefer a diet of small fish such as anchovies, sardines, and white croaker.
The noise was like the croak of a frog mixed with English.
When one frog calls, the others immediately join it in a concert of quacks and croaks.
‘I've got a cold, I feel terrible,’ he reluctantly croaked.
Her alien croaks and gurgles emanate from deep within her barely moving throat.
Off out for coffee tonight!! hopefully my voice isnt TOO humourous for convo making. * croak croak* Phelicity Diary Entry
Even when illness had shackled him to a wheelchair and reduced his voice to a croak, he never hid from his fellow man.
Actually what this book is a catalog of "croaking". Archive 2006-07-01
But his memory was already organizing itself, and he barked, though it came out a croak, `Townsend. THE MOAT AROUND MURCHESON'S EYE
She doesn't remember the very first day the nightingale's song metamorphosed into a crow's croak.
He filled Croaker in on the possible linkup between the Yakuza, Avalon Ltd, Torch and Delacroix. FLOATING CITY
Don't worry I'll say nice things at your funeral when you finally croak from all the stress.
She produced a gorgeous tone on the lowest strings of her viola, in that dangerous zone on the modern instrument in which the viola can sound like a frog croaking.
Currently available online and landing in terrestrial record stores next week, Lil Wayne's latest proves that even at half-throttle, his cosmic croak remains effective both in deep space and between the sheets. Really quick spins: Gucci Mane, Lil Boosie, Lil Wayne, Pimp C, Waka Flocka Flame
Croaker watched the man slink off, then walked back to where the woman was staring at a run in her Fogal stocking. FLOATING CITY
Birds have not evolved yet but the air is filled will a symphony of croaks and calls of amphibians and insects.
The raven gave a short, comfortable, confidential kind of croak; — a most expressive croak, which seemed to say, Barnaby Rudge
I do have a whole bunch of songs that I strum or fingerpick whilst singing -- well, more like croaking -- along, ranging from The Kinks Lola, to Randy Newman's Sail Away, to some I've written, but since I'm focusing more on how to play the guitar, I don't spend as much time learning those as I do the instrumentals. Repertoire
My voice was croaky, slightly hoarse, but he heard it.
He concludes a tribute to acoustic music with a croaky, hammed-up version of "Maggie's Farm," and it rules. Live blogging from the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards
Their voices have the drunken croak and rumble of old crows.
Not because you won't drop weight, but because you'll croak if you eat if after you lose weight.
My hoarse croak was in complete odds with her, happy, sedated voice.
The tenth cat had lost the ability to miaow through secondhand smoke and instead croaked through a voicebox, but to play it safe and not skew the results too favorably I decided to err on the side of caution and discount his vote.
In general, vocalizations are varied and include: trumpeting, whistles, twitters, honks, barks, grunts, quacks, croaks and growls.
Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a "croaking" noise. Www.hardwarezone.com.sg
‘Settle, settle,’ she grated in her croaky voice.
See a few lade the yellow croaker car with overweight, slow drive a vehicle, be on duty personnel helps its go-cart instantly, accelerate car have enough to meet need.
Mam's voice was thin and croaky, and trying to be angry. THE GOLDEN LION
The man's voice was very deep and croaky, as if he had a throat infection.
I notice that whenever I start talking to someone, I put on my little pathetic croaky voice, and if that doesn't work, I start coughing.
`She just run out," the driver said, his voice still croaky. IN REAL LIFE
Atop lazy swirls of blues riffs, a voice croaks: "It's what you call a downbeat, it's what you call a downbeat. Wicked French Party Tunes From Band Named Rin��r��se
That means the husband probably croaked, and she still can't get over it.
The kitchen clock croaked and creaked, seeming to match the uneven rhythm of his heart.
Most of these sequences are dialog-free with nature sounds - birds tweeting, frogs croaking - overlaid for that vital au naturel feel.
His delivery is croaky and he misses even mid range notes.
Croaker was near the center, he could taste it on the electrically charged air. FLOATING CITY
An 'thrice taames did a raven croak, an' t 'seame-like thrice cam t' hoot Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems
This cold refuses to give up and is hounding my heels and head with sniffles, scratchy throat, a croaky voice and explosive sinus pain.
More and more until one day I woke up and croaked like a frog. Msagara: Good Enough is Never Enough. Maybe...
Then you hear them reading their poems and instead of rich and resonant voice full of authority and confidence there's a thin, reedy croak.
I kind of croaked out to my partner that if the baby was a girl I was going to call it Yoshimi ... lucky he was a boy. Fussy
It includes whiting, sand trout, croaker, sheepshead, flounder, redfish and black drum.
Her voice was croaky, and she had missed a few notes.
Tell me everything you know,’ Crystal finally croaked out.
She croaks, squeaks, howls, and whines her way through the role, nearly always off-key and most horrid.
There is a new company annalist as Croaker and the Lady now lead. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: She Is the Darkness - Glen Cook
This is a great return to form from the croaky voiced one, with loads of featured artists.
The dump of boots outside, the croaking of old beldames from attic to attic, the dull murmur of morning, unnerved him, and, dozing, he slumped in his chair, his brain, overladen with sound and color, working intolerably over the imagery that stacked it.
a large company of rooks — & their croak is always in unison with mine. Letter 141
I'm less impressed with the recent work, which is mostly a stony croak over monotonal and mostly inert melodies, but it's not all bad.
‘The guttural comment’ is the croak of the frog who is indignant at the trespass.
In his Saturday night set, Dylan's voice was as good as could be expected - that is, a croak with zero range, but with most of the words delivered, and his phrasing as random and idiosyncratic as can be imagined. Expecting Rain
He progressed slowly from awkward croaks to slightly more appropriate cock-a-doodles, but never managed to master the full cock-a-doodle-doo.
The words came out as a dry croak.
If you listen hard enough, you can hear the sound of a thousand woodworm croaking their last.
‘The frogs are croaking,’ reports my friend who lives out in the country.
And all that the note told me of was that my great-aunt was ill and my parents didn't know where I was at the time, so they drove off to Wisconsin to go visit her, before she perhaps croaked.
High above me, a cautious raven flew by, heavily and sharply cutting the air with his wings; then he turned his head, looked at me sidewise, and, croaking abruptly, disappeared beyond the forest; a large flock of pigeons rushed past me from a barn, and, suddenly whirling about in a column, they came down and stationed themselves bustlingly upon the field -- a sign of spring autumn! The Rendezvous 1907
It took 'em 10 years to finally croak.
‘I told you he would come,’ the croak of a voice sounded from behind her.
I'll make sure the people who are won't get croaked and that's about it.
The boy croaked a soft reply as more bourbon gurgled into Ron's glass. We're All Guys Here
‘Hello,’ he says in his croaky voice, pushing his head forward, turtle-like and squinting at me on the doorstep.
From his first, perhaps best book, "The Immense Journey," he showed a gift for transporting his readers across aeonic expanses—evoking the "croaking gloom of carboniferous swamps" and "the surf on Cretaceous beaches where now the wheat of Kansas rolls. Dispatches From the Natural World
July 18th, 2006 at 1: 12 am yipes says: maybe frog knows a secret way to make the neo cons croak! Think Progress » Former CIA Director Woolsey: ‘I Think We Ought To Execute Some Air Strikes Against Syria’
Trying to speak once more she finally managed to croak out, ‘Are you hurt?’
Wind turbines turn lazily in a waft of air, a frog croaks in a pond, a small white goat munches grass along the driveway and a waterwheel makes faint sloshing noises as it turns.
Crook tried to shout to them for help, but managed no more than a breathless croak. STAGE FRIGHT
In some places it is primeval and wet, where streaky barked eucalyptus strive upwards through dripping mists alive with frog croaks.
Not too far ahead she could hear the sound of running water, and frogs croaking loudly in many different tones.
She croaks, squeaks, howls, and whines her way through the role, nearly always off-key and most horrid.
‘It's nothing I can't handle,’ she croaked feebly and Randy chuckled at the grating sound her voice made.
Frogs and toads croak out a strange mating ritual in a concrete drainage ditch.
I tried to sound in control and normal but all I could manage were hoarse croaks.

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