Example Sentences

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Its economy, whose foundations have creaked under coronavirus restrictions, relies heavily on the travel industry.

From Reuters • Dec. 22, 2021

Back and forth they must have creaked and strained, bolted and battered, gaining momentum until they catapulted thunderously overboard, capsizing the careening, helpless ferry.

From Time Magazine Archive

Kitty moved her chair, creaking it ominously; but Bessie had got to a most thrilling part of her subject, and Kitty might have creaked the library down before she would have roused her companion's attention.

From Wild Kitty by Meade, L. T.

How could the hinges have creaked then, and whose cautious footsteps had I heard?

From Seen and Unseen by Bates, E. Katharine

The boards should have creaked there and the stair-rails ought to have given under the hand—but they didn't.

From The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam