croak
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"There's no time for that. Glasgow on the weekend, mate, it's bouncing," the Scot said with a slight croak in his voice.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
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
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
Saturday was the appointed time for the faithful to holler or croak whatever they could through the din.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2022
After a time, she was too tired to run fast and her shout came out a croak as hoarse as the crows’.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
Still, Alcock reacts with exactly the right note of disdain: “Cool,” she croaks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Then he croaks the hook from the album’s first single, “Houdini,” a riff on the chorus of Steve Miller’s “Abracadabra”:
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 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
Tiny sputters and coughs a bit and then croaks, "My throat. So raw."
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
"Vooaaria!" the bird croaked, a concoction of sounds that resembled a drunken old man.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
"The only flowers anyone saw in Aston were the ones you threw in the hole after you when you croaked it at the age of 53 'cos you'd worked yourself to death."
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025
When she asked him what she needed to bring with them, he croaked, “The clocks.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2024
“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
Ravens circle overhead, croaking at my presence in defiance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
“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
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
He felt alone and unprotected, and scraping crickets and shrilling tree frogs and croaking toads seemed to be carrying the melody of evil.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
