creaking

The Catalan, who arrived at Manchester City in the summer of 2016, had been on hot bricks from the first whistle at Amex Stadium, his mood made worse by Matt O'Riley racing through a creaking defence to score Brighton's deserved winner seven minutes from the end of a thunderous encounter.

It comes just weeks after millions were left without power for four days following a blackout caused by issues with the country's creaking energy infrastructure.

Speaking last Sunday, at the height of what was Cuba’s most acute energy crisis in years, the country’s energy and mines minister, Vicente de la O Levy, blamed the problems for the country’s creaking electrical infrastructure on what he called the “brutal” US economic embargo on Cuba.

However, on Thursday at midnight, Roos said, "My windows failed. So they are creaking and making these very weird sounds and I'm taking on water. I'm on the 11th floor and there's a bunch of water coming in. That door is supposed to be completely sealed. I'm really afraid the windows are going to blow."

I can hear the faint creaking of floorboards in my house yet when I’m in the middle of a robust three-way conversation, I feel like the odd man out.