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• n  a squeaking sound
  the creak of the floorboards gave him away
• v  make a high-pitched, screeching noise
  The door creaked when I opened it slowly

• Ponnudorai's parents were too poor to buy him a metronome: he learned his exquisite sense of timing by playing along to the creak of an old ceiling fan.
• Every strange creak in the night frightened her.
• The only sounds he hears are the snap of a rein across the mule's hindquarters, the simple mechanical whirl of his corn-harvesting machine and the creak of his oak-plank wagon as .

• creaking
• whine
• squeak
• screech
• screak
• skreak

News & Articles

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• County board uges Congress to reopen Clear Creek
  The San Benito County Board of Supervisors approved a letter of support for congressional legislation that would reopen Clear Creak to off-highway vehicle use.
  June 6, 2013 - The Pinnacle

Quotes

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• Ben Affleck in New York Daily News
  I just get nervous and think that every chair creak or cough, people hate it,Affleck said of his directorial debut. "And when someone says they thought the movie was good, [I think], you're lying to me!"
• Mark Calcavecchia in guardian.co.uk
  Calcavecchia, whose Italian connection lies with a grandfather from Sicily, explained: "I have constant back pain, my knees creak, my feet hurt and my brain is shot, but I won't use it as an excuse. I hit the driver sideways and putted worse - my...