verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
chair
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The chair creaked alarmingly under his weight.
door
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The door creaked open and Berger stepped in, Eggar at his back.
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The car door creaked open, slammed shut, and then footsteps raced toward the garage.
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I was nearly at the cubicle door when it creaked open and something squeezed out to take hold of me.
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She pushed against the door , it creaked open and she fell out on to the damp grassy verge.
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The door creaked open an inch.
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I scurried under the tractor as the doors began to creak open.
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The door creaks open or thumps shut hundreds of times a day 5 feet from the nest.
■ VERB
hear
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After a while, through the partially open cabin hatch, she heard the bed creak beneath his weight.
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Listen with the ears of psychohistory, and you will hear the creaking .
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As we camped next to the ice, we could hear it creaking and moaning long into the night.
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Wyatt had said later that you could almost hear his mouth muscles creaking .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In the hall the flooboards creaked and the walls were damp.
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The key clicked inside the lock and the door creaked open.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Down the street a gate creaked open then snapped shut.
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Elsewhere in the financial system, the creaking noises are getting louder.
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Listen with the ears of psychohistory, and you will hear the creaking.
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Meanwhile, that part of the building shifted, rising and falling with the seasons, and the floors creaked constantly.
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Old panelling, creaking stairways and sloping floors remain.
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The F2B creaked through a 180-degree turn and began photographing another strip.
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The sky was clear, the stars were beautiful and the snow creaked underfoot.
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Then the gate creaked, setting off a drumroll in his heart.