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

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 Kipling, Rudyard

The channel was very narrow and shallow here and the captain's little whistle that communicated with the powers below was squeaking frantically.

From The End of the Rainbow by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller

Tabaqui, behind him, was squeaking: "My lord, my lord, it went in here!"

From The Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard