creak
verb (used without object)
to make a sharp, harsh, grating, or squeaking sound.
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
Sure, the NBA creakily returned from its All-Star slumber and baseball began spring training, but without the Olympics there had been few events of any real consequence.
From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2018
Like the Ghost of Christmas Past, it isn’t transgressive so much as creakily evocative of dimly recalled transgressions.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2016
Its plot hangs together no more creakily than, say, Verdi’s “Il Trovatore.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2014
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
