Example Sentences

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Rosewood is the guy you hire when a loved one has croaked but you still doubt the county coroner or Miami PD’s conclusion on the evidence.

From Washington Post

"I see the old man has croaked and I was just dropping in to talk business," Hicks's newsboy voice growled out.

From The Perils of Pauline by Goddard, Charles

A shade of feeling passed over his professional countenance as he gravely and solemnly pronounced these words: "Madam, your husband has croaked."

From Rolling Stones by Henry, O.

The raven has croaked in a high-pitched, abnormal key; the jackdaw and canary have become silent and dejected, from time to time shivering; the magpie even has feigned death; the parrot has shrieked incessantly.

From Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter by O'Donnell, Elliott