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Creaked in sentence

31 examples of Creaked in a sentence

Granted, this was 1933, but it really creaked.
The European house creaked mightily.
Every time the door creaked every one turned round, expecting to see the bride and bridegroom enter.
At last the third bell rang, the engine whistled and creaked, the coupling chains gave a jerk, and the husband crossed himself.
Zacharie and Jeanlin were already going down; he followed them, and the wooden staircase creaked beneath their heavy feet, clad in wool.
The iron creaked, and the men were thrown on to each other.
No doubt the stoves of the boilers were scarcely extinguished, for the tall brick chimney gave out a light smoke beneath the dark clouds; while the weathercock on the steeple creaked in the wind with a short, shrill cry, the only melancholy voice of these vast buildings which were about to die.
The walls were new and the wooden stairs creaked.
The horses were panting; the leather of the saddles creaked.
Charles was walking up and down the room; his boots creaked on the floor.
At last a thud was heard; the ropes creaked as they were drawn up.
The stairs creaked faintly.
Tom went to the door and began to softly lift the latch; then he pressed gently and the door yielded a crack; he continued pushing cautiously, and quaking every time it creaked, till he judged he might squeeze through on his knees; so he put his head through and began, warily.
There was a rustle in the gallery, which nobody noticed; a moment later the church door creaked; the minister raised his streaming eyes above his handkerchief, and stood transfixed!
The skiff creaked and danced upon the river.
Hot punch is a pleasant thing, gentlemen--an extremely pleasant thing under any circumstances --but in that snug old parlour, before the roaring fire, with the wind blowing outside till every timber in the old house creaked again, Tom Smart found it perfectly delightful.
The bullock-cart creaked down the road to Rawut Junction in the first flush of a purple evening, and the low ranges of the Aravullis showed as many-colored cloud-banks against the turquoise sky-line.
With this persuasion I was hurrying away to my own little retreat upstairs, when the street door creaked upon its hinges; heavy feet made the whole flight of stairs to shake; and the master of the house, passing rapidly through the dining-room, threw himself in haste into his own sanctum.
We had taken the precaution of leaving our boots behind us, but, even so, the old boards snapped and creaked beneath our tread.
It creaked and groaned, but did not yield.
Our boilers were strained to their utmost, and the frail shell vibrated and creaked with the fierce energy which was driving us along.
The bolts screamed as they were withdrawn--the hinges creaked as the wicket opened, and Reginald Front-de-Boeuf, followed by the two Saracen slaves of the Templar, entered the prison.
I had strange thoughts of what had befallen me, when the door of my dungeon creaked, and two villain monks entered.
In the midst of his conversation about his acquaintanceship with Sviyazhsky the gates creaked again, and the labourers returning from the fields came into the yard with their ploughs and harrows.
With some difficulty Meaulnes opened the door of the rickety old vehicle, while the panes rattled and the hinges creaked.
Something creaked: it was a door ajar; and that door was Mr. Rochester's, and the smoke rushed in a cloud from thence.
A tread creaked on the stairs at last.
They grasped the ropes, the wheel creaked, the enormous capsule of metal started slowly into motion.
At the same time, the heavy lock creaked, the trap grated on its rusty hinges, turned, and she beheld a lantern, a hand, and the lower portions of the bodies of two men, the door being too low to admit of her seeing their heads.
The iron gratings creaked; through the dark openings were heard the usual cries of the scourgers, "To the sand!" and in one moment the arena was peopled with crowds as it were of satyrs covered with skins.