I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bubble and squeak
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
by
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New York Head Start programs also were squeaking by , but funding could dry up by the end of January.
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The irony of all this is that he scored incredibly high on the LSATs, and I just squeaked by .
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The ad gained Wellstone enough sympathy to squeak by with a 48, 000-vote margin.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His chair squeaked loudly as he swivelled round to face me.
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Is that your chair squeaking?
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Kramer's running shoes squeaked on the marble floor.
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The rubber soles of my shoes squeaked on the shiny floor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A fourth squeaked through on a single disputed vote.
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He pinched the last quarter inch of his cigarette tightly, and sucked on it so hard it squeaked.
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How the sly one squeaked, howled, sizzled, hissed, and swelled his hairy carapace!
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If he had, Burke's kick might have squeaked in.
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The door doesn't squeak , either, and it's ever so quiet and peaceful.
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The front door squeaks to a close and eyes need a few seconds to adjust to the dim interior.
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There has also been a miraculous rise of the Liberals from the ashes - they may just squeak past 5 percent themselves.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
hear
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As he opened the door and looked out he thought he heard the squeak of a tricycle.
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The rest of us heard a thin squeak , and started calling for her as she had vanished from sight.
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There was no reply from the bishop, but he didn't hear another squeak from the turbulent priests either.
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She began to drift and was just dozing off when she heard the squeak of Nathan's deck shoes on the ladder.
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Have we heard a squeak of protest from anyone?
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We heard the high-pitched squeaks of a gold crest.
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Younger cats are not only good at hearing high-pitched squeaks , they are also brilliant at detecting precise direction.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The only sound is the soft squeak of the marker on the board.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bats flittered about him; their warning squeaks sounded like chalk on a blackboard.
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Complaints: Occasional squeaks emanating from front breaks.
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It was a narrow squeak for the mahogany glider.
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Not a squeak did we hear.
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The rest of us heard a thin squeak , and started calling for her as she had vanished from sight.
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Three rides he had today, for three different trainers, and not one of them had a squeak .
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What seemed a single animal is now known to be two, distinct in their genes and with squeaks of different pitch.
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Why are their forays to and above the leaf surface accompanied by squeaks and peeps?