Example Sentences
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I recall a starry revival of “A Doll’s House” many years ago that made me want to dismiss Ibsen’s play as creakily obsolete.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2025
And like Mr. Winters then, Mr. Williams in “The Crazy Ones” seemed to be gamely but a little creakily doing an impersonation of himself.
From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2014
At the start, in a black suit, he looks like a knock-kneed, buttoned-up bureaucrat, arms tight by his side, fingers twitching, voice creakily restrained.
From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2013
But he needs the job, and the store’s owner, the creakily old, mysterious Mr. Penumbra, doesn’t care that Clay has no experience.
From Slate • Oct. 5, 2012
When the elevator creakily arrived, he rode it—not to his own floor—but to the lower level on which the new tenant, Pris Stratton, now lived.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
