croak

Example Sentences

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There’s a wicked irony in micromanaging your entire life on Earth only to croak and have your soul potentially jettisoned to some formless state of being, entirely unknown to mere mortals.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2025

And certainly the dry croak of his singing voice in the LP’s lead single suggests he’d enjoyed healthier times.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2025

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

The cry of adults is more like the croak of a frog or the sound of a weed wacker that won’t quite start than that of a songbird, she said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2022

“In every sentence they menace our poor veins. Their language is as frightful to the ears of the alarmed multitude as the raven’s croak to those of the sickly flock.”

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy