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

As a measure of power moves ever so creakily toward players within those meetings, both coaches spoke with aplomb.

From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 2018

Its plot hangs together no more creakily than, say, Verdi’s “Il Trovatore.”

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 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

He looked as if he could use an oiling himself—he moved quite creakily, and with a pronounced stoop, so that he truly seemed as old as he appeared in his disguise.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart