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

Frogs croak and croak, their mating calls echoing in the air.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2023

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

For a few days, I could not summon the energy for outrage, or fury, or fear; I could only croak requests for chicken pho and rewatch another episode of “The Crown.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2022

He also seemed to be trying to speak, or make a noise, but all that came out was a croak.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien