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Creaky
Creaky meaning
Tending to creak. | Worn down by overuse; decrepit. | arthritic or rheumatic.
Example sentences (20)
According to Cole Alteneder, who used to live in the rental home where the murders took place, it’s likely that all those in the house would be able to hear a commotion in the “creaky” old rental.
Further south, the line, another underfunded and creaky public service, is also one of the world’s finest rail routes.
The Coliseum, venerable as well as creaky after 61 years of existence, had hosted dozens of great moments.
From its creaky floors to its whispering walls, an old home tells stories of the past while providing comfort today.
The creaky system must be carefully managed, with continuous rebalancing between reservoirs, towers, etc.
Cherie Boos, manager of Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop, in an authentically rustic, creaky floored 18th-century Creole cottage, said she’s hoping locals will help keep the bar financially afloat as Bourbon Street revives.
There are, however, consequences to the scale and scope of response because the mode of distribution involves those creaky pipes I mentioned.
While phones can feel a bit creaky towards the end of a 24-month contract, smartwatch technology moves quite a bit slower thanks to the limited amount of heavy lifting the hardware needs to do.
Flash forward to last weekend, and the Bears found themselves once again in a creaky situation without Morikawa.
NYCT president Andy Byford told that he’s not opposed to closing the Clark Street subway stop in Brooklyn for eight months to fix its creaky, terrifying elevators—one of which is actually a century old.
Osteoarthritis, the wear-and-tear kind that makes people and dogs creaky, is another common affliction as dogs age.
Over the past few years we’ve exercised him mainly by hiking, but he’s getting old and creaky now and no longer wants to be as active.
Six of the eight rooms are dotted above the original pub, accessed by creaky old staircases, with the remaining two in the separately accessed Doghouse.
This book is meant to look creaky and brittle.
Yes, she admits, it is hard to “feel creaky or to see wrinkles” as she gets older, she says, “but what makes me really sad is that I don’t have as much time as I wish I did to have fun, you know?
Every once in a while, there’s a play that was originally written in English, but there’s still something wildly creaky about it.
Ingram, 78, said recently from the headquarters of the Eagle Nature Foundation, in a creaky, nearly 150-year-old house that doubles as his insurance office in this tiny town 140 miles northwest of Chicago.
According to a 2012 study in PLOS ONE, young women using creaky voice are viewed as less competent, less educated, less trustworthy, less attractive and less employable.
Creaky voice is prevalent as a peer-group affectation among young women in the United States. citation citation citation citation Vuolo, Mike.
For example, Gujarati has vowels with a partially lax phonation called breathy voice or murmured, while Burmese has vowels with a partially tense phonation called creaky voice or laryngealized.