squeak
noun
a short, sharp, shrill cry; a sharp, high-pitched sound.
was squeaking
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past progressiveof squeak.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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She was squeaking by on $720 per month in disability checks.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2015
Democratic Governor John Dalton, who carried the state by some 300,000 votes in 1960 while Kennedy was squeaking past Nixon by 10,000, publicly concedes that Kennedy is in trouble.
From Time Magazine Archive
Presently, however, there came from the doorstep a slight but peculiar call, as if a rat was squeaking.
From The Beetle by Richard Marsh
Tabaqui, behind him, was squeaking: 'My lord, my lord, it went in here!'
From The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
The young in most instances were only a few days old but were thickly clustered on the walls and ceilings, and each and every one was squeaking at the top of its tiny lungs.
From Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China by Roy Chapman Andrews
