croak
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She has an angelic voice, and Bob has this craggy kind of Blues man’s croak.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2024
Purdue, unlike Virginia, which lost by 20, kept a lukewarm hope into the closing minute, only to see it croak in disarray and send the Knights in blue charging and dancing onto the floor.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2023
“It was ravaged but always in key,” he says of Lanegan’s signature croak.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2022
The stock market is crashing, there’s a war in Europe, everyone on “This is Us” is about to croak.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2022
I start to say, my fascination coming out as a hoarse croak.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
“Even if I wanted to go home, I don’t know the way no more,” Robbie croaks.
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2025
At the end of “The Final Conflict,” the third “Omen” movie from 1981, Damien the Antichrist croaks out the words, “Nazarene, you have won ... nothing,” then collapses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024
A healthy coral reef is noisy, full of the croaks, purrs, and grunts of various fishes and the crackling of snapping shrimp.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024
These beady-eyed amphibians can be found on the banks of noisy streams throughout China, where the rapids would drown out ordinary croaks and chirps.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 11, 2024
At best he could manage croaks and whispers.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
"Vooaaria!" the bird croaked, a concoction of sounds that resembled a drunken old man.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
When she asked him what she needed to bring with them, he croaked, “The clocks.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2024
They thought she was joking when she croaked a response - but she told them it was her real voice.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2023
“See who we’ve got near UW,” he finally croaked out in a dry voice.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2022
“Kreacher won’t, Kreacher won’t, Kreacher won’t!” croaked the house-elf, quite as loudly as Uncle Vernon, stamping his long, gnarled feet and pulling his ears.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
“As we got to the end of the season losing these games, it was just croaking me,” Kraft says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
Maybe that’s not the most dignified way to go, but for Annette and others like her, it’s better than croaking in the heat of the desert sun.
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2025
Because of this, and the fact that it makes some people sound like they are on the verge of tears, some doctors once believed that the croaking or breathy vocalizations were tied to psychological trauma.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
In one case, the Telegraph reports, a couple in the French countryside was ordered to get rid of a pond because the sound of croaking frogs annoyed the neighbors.
From NewsForKids.net ● Mar. 13, 2024
Into the Object’s face, into her ears he kept hissing and croaking.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
