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squeaking

[ US /ˈskwikɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /skwˈiːkɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge

How To Use squeaking 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
  • Matt's throat constricted painfully and he dashed, trainers squeaking on the shiny floor, to the high bed, only just stopping himself jumping onto it.
  • And God only knows what that is out there squeaking and squealing the soprano parts.
  • Michael sat on Kay's bed, the springs squeaking as his weight hit the mattress.
  • Rasa kept up a steady chatter as the tiled floors turned to squeaking boards under my feet, the black wood scratched and gouged from the passage of countless clawed feet.
  • High up in their canopies flyers leapt from branch to branch, chittering and squeaking at the intruders below.
  • Selena crouched next to him, her boots squeaking gently, the sound magnifying itself in his ears, echoing off each wall several times.
  • The gate hinges need oiling they're squeaking.
  • The floors had stopped squeaking, and there was the sound of someone walking on the boards that didn't squeak.
  • Iron wheels made a squeaking, grinding noise. Anna squeezed my hand.
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