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
Then give it a place 10In the temple of Pele; And a bowl for the throats That are croaking with thirst.
From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Emerson, Nathaniel Bright
Frogs are croaking down by the stream, every now and then an owl hoots somewhere in the distance, and the air comes up to my face off the long grass cool and damp.
From Christine by Cholmondeley, Alice
For in November the ten might have been four times ten fat and lusty, lazy fellows, boring the oozy margins of these same pools where the frogs are croaking and the toads are singing to-day.
From In New England Fields and Woods by Robinson, Rowland E. (Evans)
In the marshes, frogs are croaking in loud unison.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
