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It wasn’t a confirmation, but you could feel the hype machine creak into action at even the most remote chance of the old Tiger magic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

She heard music everywhere: a spoon banging against a cooking pot, the honking of geese overheard, the creak and slam of a screen door.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2026

She’s used to hearing provisional bleachers creak under sunscreen-slathered fans as music buzzes through nearby portable speakers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2025

Because, for all this week's haka hoopla, for all the tourists' dominant history, this is a New Zealand team that creak when their predecessors - with 34 wins from 45 previous meetings - didn't.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2024

But Lola had the door shut and latched before Max heard the main door to the office creak open.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

“The Whisper Man” leans heavily on the twists and turns of its propulsive and menacing plot, which occasionally creaks like stairs to that creepy basement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

As French firefighters struggle to contain the worst wildfires in living memory with just 12 aerial water bombers, production of the iconic aircraft creaks along half a world away in a Canadian factory.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

Collectively, the team's defence, which has kept opposition shuttling sideways for the past year, was suddenly full of creaks and creases for Scotland to exploit.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026

Tom has reached an age when he can no longer get around the house without an accompaniment of creaks and groans and thuds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

The bed creaks when I sit down in my parents’ dark room, but my dad doesn’t stir.

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko

It creaked past his shelter, past the collapsed buildings and ravaged orchards towards the west, away from the Yellow Line.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

So, just shy of 80 years since its launch, the trams of Druzhkivka have creaked their way around the city for the last time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

The tram creaked past deserted factories that once produced mining equipment and porcelain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

"Derry Girls just creaked the door open ... because there's such trust in the fact that people will watch a story about that place, about those people," she said.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

I was lying there, watching the flashes of lightning through my window and listening to the raging storm when the door of my room creaked open.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Despite the change in venue, some things are universal in Nigeria, whose creaking grid is as infamous as Lagos traffic: as the models prepped backstage Friday, the power briefly cut out.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

A score by Latham and Shelby Gaines balances discordant, atonal tones with suspense-driven sound design that captures the creaking noises of the forest and the concealed dangers it holds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

I am sure he will get it right eventually, but at the moment they are leaking goals and creaking at the back.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

With its tar-soaked rigging, creaking oak deck and 50 spruce oars, Draken Harald Harfagre is the largest modern replica of a Viking ship.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

The sound of crashing waves is a roar in my ears, punctuated by the creaking of the wooden ship.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone