How To Use Croaking In A Sentence
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She is always croaking, scolding, bullying — yowling at the housemaids, snarling at Miss Raby, bowwowing after the little boys, barking after the big ones.
Dr. Birch and his young friends
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‘The frogs are croaking,’ reports my friend who lives out in the country.
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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
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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
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Not too far ahead she could hear the sound of running water, and frogs croaking loudly in many different tones.
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There was always some sound to be heard; the chirping of crickets, bird songs, bullfrogs croaking, and the crunching of leaves and pine needles underfoot.
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Ye croaking owld divil, is that the tune you taught your son?
Roughing It in the Bush
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He used to make light of what he termed my" croaking "and say I need have no fears for him; and I believe he spoke from the sincerity of his good intentions; he thought all others as sincere and open-hearted as himself, and happy had it been for him if he had found them so.
Stories and Sketches
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I've heard 'em at Kabul before the Retreat, at Cawnpore, on the heights above the North Valley at Balaclava, and I won't swear someone wasn't croaking them as we laboured up the Greasy Grass slope. behind G.A. Custer, God rest his fat-headed soul.
Watershed
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Well, as peaceful as possible with a frog croaking nineteen to the dozen in the background, anyway.
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Experiment shows that a frog deprived of consciousness and volition by the removal of the front part of its brain, will, under the action of various stimuli, perform many acts which can only be called purposive, such as moving to recover its balance when the board on which it stands is inclined, or scratching where it is made uncomfortable, or croaking when pressed in a particular spot.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
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If you listen hard enough, you can hear the sound of a thousand woodworm croaking their last.
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She could also hear the frogs croaking on the nearby pond.
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This most extraordinary pile was situated in a deep valley, closely surrounded by hills, as though the very light of the sun had been an indulgence too great for the mortified beings who once inhabited there to enjoy, while the croaking of rooks, the dashing of a waterfall, and the gloom of overhanging woods, seemed well calculated to sooth that melancholy, which, in the idea of monkish superstition constituted that divine principle whose real existence dissipates every mental gloom, and diffuses serenity and joy through all the powers of the soul.
Ashton Priory
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Less synthesizer, more sewer, the Atlantic — an ocean of filth in its own right, stepping-stone-less, lily-white-launching-pad welcome mat for pallid oppressor-rapists — has dipped its toes in a curdled consommé of croaking crepitus?
Matthew Yglesias » Wednesday Regenerative Animal Blogging
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There was always some sound to be heard; the chirping of crickets, bird songs, bullfrogs croaking, and the crunching of leaves and pine needles underfoot.
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On Brookfair, the nights were so clear and silent that you could hear the crickets chirping and every frog and toad croaking for their mates and you could hear cranes whooping and ducks going to sleep.
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Of course, those who are familiar with our ways of getting things done would understand that a good deal of the croaking is a means of getting our little army increased, or at least preventing its being diminished.
New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index
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She is always croaking, scolding, bullying -- yowling at the housemaids, snarling at Miss Raby, bowwowing after the little boys, barking after the big ones.
The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh
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What "croaking" meant Jamie did not in the least know, but he suspected that it referred to something not in the least pleasant for himself.
Troop One of the Labrador
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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.
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But if protests were made to McNaghten - and they were, especially by active men like Broadfoot - they were dismissed as "croaking", and it was pointed out sharply that the army was unlikely to be called on to fight anyway.
Flashman
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And out of the trees came great black ravens, hundreds of them, croaking like peals of doom.
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The open window let in the sound of evening frogs croaking in the nearby swamp.
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The took a compass bearing for the direction of the croaking and eventually reached stagnant, muddy pools, thick with a scum of dead insects.
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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.
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You know, if you say it enough times, it starts to sound like a frog croaking.
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I'm bemused by the continual croaking and moaning that goes on about budgets.
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Aresanjura laughed, a harsh croaking sound like the death rattle from a blood-choked throat.
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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
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The frogs croaking in the lake were loud enough to drown out the performers.
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He continues however to sit croaking at Ghent, chagrinned, discontented, and dispirited.
Robert Morris
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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
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Practically everyone I meet these days seems to have bleary eyes, scarlet noses and a croaking voice.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Actually what this book is a catalog of "croaking".
Archive 2006-07-01
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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.
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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
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Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a "croaking" noise.
Www.hardwarezone.com.sg
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Most of these sequences are dialog-free with nature sounds - birds tweeting, frogs croaking - overlaid for that vital au naturel feel.
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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.