[
UK
/skwˈiːk/
]
[ US /ˈskwik/ ]
[ US /ˈskwik/ ]
NOUN
- something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin
-
a short high-pitched noise
the squeak of shoes on powdery snow
VERB
-
make a high-pitched, screeching noise
The door creaked when I opened it slowly
My car engine makes a whining noise
How To Use squeak In A Sentence
- Cart-horses furbished up for sale, with straw-bound tails and glistening skins; 'baaing' flocks of sheep; squeaking pigs; bullocks with their heads held ominously low, some going, some returning, from the auction yard; shouting drovers; lads rushing hither and thither; dogs barking; everything and everybody crushing, jostling, pushing through the narrow street. Hodge and His Masters
- Aidan squeaked, with an added stutter because he was suddenly nervous.
- But the monster got me when I fell and the 'squeaker' was broken. The Beast of Space
- And your sister-in-law, I think all she knows of you is the squeak, that is what I was saying before. Heartfire
- But judicious," Natalenko squeaked, in the high eunuchoid voice that came so incongruously from his bulk. Lone Star Planet
- Among the dainties was a live pig, which squeaking and grunting in anticipation of its fate, supplied to this orderly procession the absence of a musical band. A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1
- I love the squeaky-clean feel of my hair after I've washed it.
- Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce 'boum' ... Film | guardian.co.uk
- At 27, he's already a giant among local comic artists - and not just because of his large frame and infamously squeaky voice.
- Yet for all this muscle-flexing, Patni remains a relative pipsqueak.