Example Sentences

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If Lenny Bruce had croaked when he was a featured sketch player on Buddy Hackett’s TV show, he wouldn’t have made his way into an R.E.M. song.

From Slate • Jul. 6, 2012

Christian Century had croaked the doom of Publisher Hearst's ilk in an editorial week before.

From Time Magazine Archive

By mid-week 180 birds had croaked their last.

From Time Magazine Archive

A half hour later some man down the road said to another that the sagebrusher had croaked too.

From The Sagebrusher A Story of the West by Hough, Emerson

The solemn voice that had croaked "S-o-m-e time!" so frequently, took to monotonous, recriminating speech.

From The Lookout Man by Bower, B. M.