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

This is a wedding, we all want to enjoy ourselves and you are croaking like a raven.

From Ivanoff by Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

The ducks are quacking, the bull frogs are croaking, and everything.

From The Harvester by Stratton-Porter, Gene

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 Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith