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• The old wooden floor creaked as he paced across the room.From the entry creaked
• Ba hovers over a stove in the well-lit room, glancing when he hears the creak underfoot.2023, Trang Thanh Tran, She is a Haunting, →ISBN. From the entry bánh xèo
• Bill Skarsgard finally gets to creak and simper out his first line as It: “Here, take it.”2017, Jacob Oller, “'It' Trailer Moments That Need a Closer Look”, in Hollywood Reporter. From the entry simper out
• The front door was opening, the dubbed effect of a creak stretched with the ominously slow swing.2010, Susan Lewis, Cruel Venus, page 412. From the entry dubbed
• He wanted to keep shooting till the scrabbly old unpainted building came creaking and crashing down.2010, George Bowering, Caprice, →ISBN. From the entry scrabbly
• The armrests were forced out into a tired vee, to the accompaniment of an uneasy creaking sound.1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf. From the entry vee
• It makes no noise, the crickets and frogs are still unafraidly creaking and croaking in the dark.1963, Rosemary Millington, A Nation of Trees: Australian Rites, New Authors Limited, page 225. From the entry unafraidly
• The wagon creaked, swayed, moved on to strange accompaniment— clip-clop, clip-clop, clip-clop.1925, Zane Grey, The Thundering Herd. From the entry clip-clop
• Barnet turned it under Jacob's window, and it creaked—creaked, and rattled across the lawn and creaked again.1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter II, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC…. From the entry want
• Slowly, the grotesquely large lady made her way up the steps, the ladder creaking under her considerable weight.2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry grotesquely
• Conestoga axles creaked under their loads as the barrels of molasses and bacon and meal rattled in the wagon beds.2006, Hampton Sides, Blood and Thunder, Abacus, published 2014, page 32. From the entry Conestoga
• She crept up the stairs, keeping well into the side because she knew they were less likely to creak this way.1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 84. From the entry creep
• Pond fussed out and she heard the door of the little lavabo in the passage open with a loud creak.1930, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter XIV, in Strong Poision, page 177. From the entry lavabo
• The larch poles did instead of springs, bending and creaking, as the cart moved over the forest track.1916, Arthur Ransome, “The Christening in the Village”, in Old Peter’s Russian Tales. From the entry larch
• He heard the creak of saddlery and the thud of a horse’s hoofs on the hard turf behind him.1911, Archibald Marshall, chapter 10, in The Eldest Son, New York: Dodd, Mead, published 1919. From the entry saddlery
• Handle creaks, cattlecake flies like a shuttlecock, rattles the pailful: Sniff while the harm of death dies by the charm of breath, all bales unbaleful.2014, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Artemis Cooper, Words of Mercury: Tales from a Lifetime of Travel. From the entry unbaleful
• Unsurprising, given that he'd spent most of his life in the Well, sheltered by the very earth-berg he now rose beside, hoisted on creaking cables.2008, Elizabeth Bear, All the Windwracked Stars. From the entry earthberg
• The wind-chime tingling of halyards slapping against masts, the constant creaking of wooden boats, the gurgling of water passing under the hull.1991, Michael L. Frankel, Sabra Crossing: An Ecological Adventure in the North Atlantic. From the entry tingle
• Hughes shouting orders; then there came the cries of the forehander, and the creaking of brace blocks, as the yards were trimmed once more.1959, Tusitala, page 56. From the entry forehander
• Outside, beyond the sun-baked station yard, a rice mill chugged away in the distance, and sweating coolies unloaded bags of rice from creaking bullock carts.1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325. From the entry chug
• The door of the cabin creaked.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck. From the entry blinky
• When he held Judah's arm or touched his shoulder he felt the knob of bone and halfexpected the creak of an old door when Judah stepped or reached.2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 28, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 147. From the entry halfexpect
• Creaking leather and the snorting of mules, snatches of off-key ballads, the clop of hooves and the patter of bare soles, the rattle of hayforks and lances.2007 March 18, Michael Chabon, “‘Gentlemen of the Road’”, in New York Times. From the entry hayfork
• Next came the semi-landing with the lunette window, and here the door opened under the pressure of a single finger, and with a sigh and creak.1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 820. From the entry lunette
• Out­side storms assail the creaking home and can lead to the devel­opment of anemophobia, the fear of winds, as well as phono­phobia, the fear of noise.[1971 January 13, Hal Boyle, “According To Boyle”, in The Circleville Herald, 88th year, number 10, Circleville, Oh., page 4, column 3. From the entry anemophobia
• The only sound a skier brings to the woods is the occasional creak of a rucksack strap and the faint “shoosh” of skis gliding over the crisp snow.1970, Pat Snook, “Ski Touring”, in National Wildlife, volume 8, numbers Dec 1969–Jan 1970, page 23. From the entry shoosh
• During the whole of the previous night Clarry heard her creaking with poignant, uneasy awareness; sleeping on her deck, he had gained a smattering of her timbery language.1957, Simon Kent [pseudonym; Max Catto], Ferry to Hongkong, London: Hutchinson, page 119. From the entry timbery
• The hobbits wrapped themselves up, but their ears were strained for any sound above the creak of the wheels and the slow clop of the ponies' hoofs.1954, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “A Short Cut to Mushrooms”, in The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the…. From the entry wagon
• In mid-morning the Model T truck rolled triumphantly home to Cannery Row and hopped the gutter and creaked up through the weeds to its place behind Lee Chong’s.1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row. From the entry block up
• Scenes like this — the sallow evening light, the old Indian cropping grass, the creak of the cartwheels, the streaming egrets — were more native to him than England.1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 5”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers…. From the entry sallow
• More noises came from a dusty tree, where brown birds creaked and floundered about looking for insects; another bird, the invisible coppersmith, had started his ‘ponk ponk’.1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 104. From the entry coppersmith
• When Kate lifted the latch and creaked open the door, it was not the buzzing of bluebottles they noticed, but the smell — a toilety smell overlaid with Jeyes Fluid.2000, Patricia O’Reilly, Once Upon a Summer, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, →ISBN, pages 134–135. From the entry toilety

Meaning of creak

1. noun The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.
2. verb To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances.
3. verb To produce a creaking sound with.

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Questions about creak in a sentence

How do you use creak in a sentence?

Creak is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The old wooden floor creaked as he paced across the room.”

What is a short sentence with creak?

“The door of the cabin creaked.”

What does creak mean?

Creak means the sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.