Example Sentences

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Bowls have croaked here and there and everywhere through time, but this one .

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2019

But the rose has an awful lot of dead wood and, in truth, may have croaked well before the spring peepers now in voice.

From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2019

I joined at Bombay, after the business, or I’d have croaked too.”

From The Beach of Dreams by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)

Should have croaked in one week more if I couldn't have worked off a few pounds of high pressure.

From A Court of Inquiry by Richmond, Grace S. (Grace Smith)

"If Merriwell's muscles hadn't been as tough as steel," continued Diamond, "he would have croaked before this."

From Frank Merriwell's Return to Yale by Standish, Burt L.