Synonyms for creaking

Grammar : Verb

Spell : kreek

Phonetic Transcription : krik

Définition of creaking

Origin : early 14c., "utter a harsh cry," of imitative origin. Used of the sound made by a rusty gate hinge, etc., from 1580s. Related: Creaked; creaking. As a noun, from c.1600.

verb grind, grate with high noise

Example sentences :

What I hear at night is the creaking of stairs, when I know that nobody ought to be stirring.
Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Presently he was lifted and carried by strong arms up a creaking stairs.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

A few seconds more and he heard the creaking of rusty hinges.
Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle

She listened intently, but she heard nothing but the creaking of his chair.
Extract from : « Alexander's Bridge and The Barrel Organ » by Willa Cather and Alfred Noyes

Lying in bed, we heard the creaking of the beams and rafters.
Extract from : « The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, Complete » by Madame La Marquise De Montespan

Charles fed him as best he could, moving on rusty, creaking limbs.
Extract from : « Beside Still Waters » by Robert Sheckley

Light as my footsteps were, the landing was creaking under me.
Extract from : « The Woman Thou Gavest Me » by Hall Caine

Inch by inch, creaking and swaying, the room glided downward.
Extract from : « Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective » by Ellis Parker Butler

There was the creaking of a bar, and the door was opened cautiously.
Extract from : « The Plunderer » by Roy Norton

I shouted again, but my voice must have been drowned in the creaking of blocks and yards.
Extract from : « Romance » by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer

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