Creaking

Word CREAKING
Character 8
Hyphenation creak ing
Pronunciations /ˈkɹiːkɪŋ/

Definitions and meanings of "Creaking"

What do we mean by creaking?

To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances.

To produce a creaking sound with.

To suffer from strain or old age.

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The word "creaking" in example sentences

Now and then she would rouse a little, and catch the sound of voices, or be aware that Clover or Elsie stood at the door, crying softly; or that Aunt Izzie, in creaking slippers, was going about the room on tiptoe. ❋ Unknown (1887)

The machine shuddered, then swayed as if trying to regain its balance, there was a loud creaking from the metal plates and the entwined canes, and suddenly, as if it were being sucked in by a luminous vortex, it went up making two complete turns, and no sooner had it risen above the walls of the coach-house than it recovered its balance, raised its head like a seagull, and soared like an arrow straight up into the sky. ❋ Unknown (1998)

We’re bound to have that, but that’s the area where the creaking is caused by the newness, not by the fact that it’s a defective piece of machinery or there’s something wrong with the machinery. ❋ Unknown (2008)

 My experience is that this creaking occurs when the cassette becomes totally dry, particularly the freehub body. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For Wells, an electrical spark that arced across the white page, and for Conrad, each word creaking on the blocks, the woman pale before the moon, her eyes black as tornadoes at sea. ❋ Stephen Oliver (N/A)

High up, silver-winged gulls curved and dipped and called their creaking signals. ❋ Inez Haynes Gillmore (1921)

The constant 'creaking' noise in the Tok'ra tunnels, as if they are about collapse at any moment. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Once the glass started breaking, did you feel the house kind of creaking and swaying? ❋ Unknown (2006)

The sound came again, a kind of creaking that reminded Bek of the ship's rigging working against spars and cleats. ❋ Brooks, Terry (2000)

Kriek said the roads had deteriorated steadily, transport services were "creaking" because of old buses, and little progress had been made with electrification. ❋ Unknown (1998)

Sound effects are a respectable mix of machine-generated and digitized effects, such as creaking doors and the howl of wolves, but they are few and far between. ❋ Unknown (1993)

We seemed to hear a kind of creaking, but this creaking sounded joyful. ❋ Various (N/A)

He had hardly done this when there was a kind of creaking sound, the door was pushed open, and Carl Sartoris entered in his chair. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

We listened with interest to their cry, which was a kind of creaking bleat. ❋ Unknown (1916)

Sometimes, when a gust of wind swept over the tree tops, the slow, continuous rain suddenly grew heavier and became a rough storm that covered the moss with a thick yellow carpet that made a kind of creaking sound beneath one's feet. ❋ Guy De Maupassant (1871)

While the supply process had generally been effective, in some areas it was "creaking" and helicopters back in Britain had had to be cannibalised to send parts out to Afghanistan, said Edward Leigh, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Just as I raised my hand to knock, the door swung slowly open, creaking on its hinges. ❋ Kristi Cook (2011)

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