creaking
IPA: krˈikɪŋ
noun
- A noise that creaks.
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Examples of "creaking" in Sentences
- High up, silver-winged gulls curved and dipped and called their creaking signals.
- Once the glass started breaking, did you feel the house kind of creaking and swaying?
- The constant 'creaking' noise in the Tok'ra tunnels, as if they are about collapse at any moment.
- My experience is that this creaking occurs when the cassette becomes totally dry, particularly the freehub body.
- The sound came again, a kind of creaking that reminded Bek of the ship's rigging working against spars and cleats.
- Kriek said the roads had deteriorated steadily, transport services were "creaking" because of old buses, and little progress had been made with electrification.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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