cricking
- present participle of crick.
Example Sentences
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When they get home, they yawning, crickets is cricking.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
He listened and heard only the cricking heat and the hiss of distance.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
The porch swing cricked five hundred times before Cat crawled under the covers next to her brother, and it was still cricking when she closed her eyes and fell asleep.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
Caul stood cricking his neck from side to side and stretching his arms boredly.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
And there in the face of day O'Hara sat on the thwart, tugging like mad, now cricking his neck almost to stare up at the cliff, and now grinning down at me in silly triumph.
From The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
