croak
verb (used without object)
to utter a low-pitched, harsh cry, as the sound of a frog or a raven.
are croaking
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present progressiveof croak.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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All around us the toads are croaking to one another in their strange night song.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
Frogs are croaking; those persistent frogs whom the muses have ordained to sing for aye, in spite of Bion and all tuneful poets dead.
From New Italian sketches by John Addington Symonds
So now, when the Toads are croaking in a brook, and they see any one come, they are all quite silent, supposing that a Stork is coming.
From The Talking Beasts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The busy spider hangs the brush With filmy gossamers, The frogs are croaking in the creek, The sluggish blacksnake stirs, But still the ground is bare of bloom Beneath the fragrant firs.
From Dreams and Dust by Don Marquis
The ducks are quacking, the bull frogs are croaking, and everything.
From The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter
