Example Sentences

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When attached to the Xbox and folded down, I noticed that the xScreen will creak and wobble if you apply any pressure to it from above.

From The Verge • Mar. 14, 2022

Granted that my bones will creak, my hair will grey, but to cut myself off from the swingy zing of the mainstream of life would really make me old.

From Time Magazine Archive

The new intellectual movement must fight its battles through without, and come off conqueror there, or ever those old Gothic doors will creak on their reluctant hinges to give it ever so pinched an entrance.

From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Bacon, Delia

That's the worst of varnished boots; they will creak so.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 31, 1917 by Various

Have you ever noticed how some chairs will creak in a room, just as though some one were sitting down or getting up?

From The Secret City by Walpole, Hugh, Sir