How to Use creaky in a Sentence

creaky

adjective

• The new governor promises to work to revive the state's creaky economy.
• The hinges can be creaky when the phone is opened or closed.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 22 May 2024
• The wind knocks it over, and the old, creaky cabin starts to go up in flames.
  — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2024
• The room should feel creaky, sticky with spilled vodka stingers; the walls should thrum with the ghosts of chanteuses past.
  — The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2024
• The uncle’s house is old and creaky and was once home to a dark wizard.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2021
• That creaky roster spent 1,747 days on the DL, third most in the majors.
  — Ben Reiter, SI.com, 6 Mar. 2017
• First up: Those creaky old CPU cores are getting the boot.
  — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 16 Apr. 2019
• But on Sunday, Brady and Rodgers looked old, creaky and cranky.
  — Mark Maske, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2022
• The wind closes a creaky door behind her in a soft whoosh.
  — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2024
• And so, the creaky old state slogan has little to do with what the state is about now.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2019
• If your body feels old and creaky, let’s grease up those achy joints and get the most bang for your buck.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 May 2022
• But there was one big barrier on the road to a new home: that creaky kitchen.
  — Maria L. La Ganga, idahostatesman, 1 June 2017
• Just know that the edge support is uneven, and the springs are a little creaky.
  — Medea Giordano, WIRED, 11 Mar. 2024
• That might lead you to believe that the main symptoms are creaky wrists or knees.
  — Marygrace Taylor, Good Housekeeping, 13 Aug. 2020
• That’s not to say computers with the new chip will be creaky by any means.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 13 Aug. 2023
• After that, the game could have been a downer, but Ransom raised the roof on the creaky old gym.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Feb. 2022
• At the Brooklyn temple, a small group made its way down a creaky set of stairs to the basement for lunch.
  — Sam Kestenbaum, New York Times, 7 June 2018
• But racing is a creaky old pastime here, with few young fans.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
• The carpools and concerts and an old house filled with the sound of young voices and feet scrambling up and down creaky stairs.
  — Dan Horn, Cincinnati.com, 24 June 2017
• The Pirates need a replacement for creaky ol’ David Freese at 3rd.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 24 Aug. 2017
• The best view in the house is from the creaky wooden balcony outlined by a white wrought iron balustrade that wraps around the L'Amour room upstairs.
  — Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• The 38-year-old Roethlisberger looked heavy, slow and creaky at times.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2021
• Both men are a bit creaky in their advancing years, and maybe things just don’t work out in either case.
  — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 7 Feb. 2020
• Indy is creaky, retiring and alone when the fifth and latest chapter opens in 1969 — a man out of time.
  — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• Others pushed further in their quest to modernize the creaky wool suit.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 20 June 2022
• It was filmed live from Florence’s famous Teatro Verdi, creaky 400-year-old floor and all.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2023
• The family gathers in the leaky and creaky apartment, where their secrets slowly come to light over the course of the trailer.
  — Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 17 Sep. 2021
• And Omri Casspi, still looking a bit creaky out there, went without a shot in four minutes.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2018
• The rules were simple for the group gathered on creaky wooden chairs in a cemetery chapel just as the autumn sun began to set.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• Certain doses have been found to improve fine lines and wrinkles in skin, ease creaky knees, and speed up wound healing.
  — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 5 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024