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Examples of creaking
creaking
Long hikes left his cold joints creaking like metal doors rusting at the hinges.
From the ocregister.com
This frenetic pace of expansion led to the supply chain creaking under pressure.
From the forbes.com
I played a whole game a couple of weeks ago and I was creaking a bit afterwards.
From the dailymail.co.uk
The tribunals systems is creaking under the weight of multiple equal pay claims.
From the guardian.co.uk
Just the creaking of dead trees, the rumble as some of them crash to the ground.
From the kentucky.com
It is true that the starmaking machines run by the record companies are creaking.
From the economist.com
Yet this engine is showing its age, creaking at times as the jets fly overhead.
From the guardian.co.uk
If that was creaking what would we call the shambles that Houllier has coached?
From the guardian.co.uk
But the rising complexity of cases is also putting pressure on a creaking system.
From the guardian.co.uk
- A squeaking sound; "the creak of the floorboards gave him away"
- Whine: make a high-pitched, screeching noise; "The door creaked when I opened it slowly"; "My car engine makes a whining noise"
- (creaky) worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack"
- (creaky) having a rasping or grating sound; "creaky stairs"
- (creaky) arthritic: of or pertaining to arthritis; "my creaky old joints"; "rheumy with age and grief"
