creaky
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It's not just at the airport that the transport network is creaky.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
The most creaky veteran played with the most aggression.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2026
There are creaky sections with various bits of percussion and tapped string overtones conveying an otherworldly Harry Partch-like texture, the sort of junkyard orchestra that inspired Tom Waits in the 1980s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
Somehow, creaky tiled houses have been wedged here between enormous outcroppings of glacial boulders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
For inside it is quiet, except for the rustling clothing of a few old women down on their creaky old knees.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
But as we get further into this decade and the economy looks ever creakier, the stakes of these boom-and-busts are just as pressing as the perils that lead companies to take them on.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2026
As a mover, Springsteen was maybe a little creakier than in the other shows I’ve caught over the last decade, at least until he came across that dog in his path during “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2024
Morgan always designed his drama to be a "love letter" to the recently departed monarch, and it plays as such, even in these creakier new episodes.
From Salon ● Nov. 11, 2022
Still debonair if a bit creakier, Pépin turns 87 in December.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2022
“T2 Trainspotting,” to use its perplexing title, is slower and creakier than “Trainspotting.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2017
A soft yet supportive backrest that is kind to even the creakiest back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2023
He was driving the creakiest, oldest and smallest Hyundai that I'd ever seen.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2018
But Wan has a gift for investing even the creakiest cliches with shivery élan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2016
In 1936, Hollywood staged one of its earliest – and creakiest – onscreen apocalypses in San Francisco, a melodrama about the city-leveling 1906 earthquake.
From The Guardian ● May 23, 2015
I lead the way, pointing to the creakiest steps so Fina will know to skip them.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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