How To Use Creaky In A Sentence
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A half-timbered family hotel with rooms off a creaky wooden balcony running round two sides of a courtyard.
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A creaky door led to a small shower room with plush red towels.
Times, Sunday Times
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The world sounded with the creaky, whispery voices of the trees and the low, grating language of the stones, and all was well.
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It didn't sound like the creaky door, or even footsteps on the dusty floor.
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Translation: Are there leaky faucets, shaky headboards, running toilets and creaky floors?
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MIDI technology and digital synths have replaced creaky old unreliable analogue methods.
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The interior of the cabin is appealing, though the low roofline means that this is more a vehicle for the young and fit, than for the old and creaky.
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His childhood was lost, at the age of ten, and on that creaky floor his manhood began.
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I looked to the left, the creaky stairs and the door shut tight.
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He slowly crept up the creaky wooden stairs to the moldy second floor hallway.
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Careful to avoid making too much noise as I crept up the creaky stairs, I made my way to the one area of the flat that I'd not yet been: Tristan's quarters.
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We pulled the stairs to the attic down from the ceiling and made our way up the creaky ladderlike steps.
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Jacob ascended the creaky stairs on his way to Peter's apartment.
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This is a smart move, because otherwise the whole thing would be so creaky and old-fashioned that only the most determined Christie fan cum couch potato would watch it.
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I grew up in the frozen north, in a creaky old farmhouse with no central heating.
Times, Sunday Times
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Martin may have been vilified, but with his greying hair and creaky limbs, he is a pussycat in comparison to triggerhappy Barras.
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While it is the sheer physicality of Mr. Hurt's performance that impresses most—he totters about the stage with the squeaky-shoed grace of the music-hall clowns that Beckett loved—you will be no less stunned by the sound of his creaky, rusty voice, which suggests a hermit who never has occasion to speak a word aloud for months at a time.
The End Of the Line
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The creaky machinery of the legal thriller makes you yearn for a big payoff - but no one, except poor Sheila, goes to jail.
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When they are successful a bell rings and a mechanical buddha lights up and makes a creaky obeisance.
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The creaky sound of the blocks rubbing together and the icy, stale air that surrounded the seaside still remain a vague childhood memory in my head.
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As I walk the halls, I nervously await one of the rattling tchotchkes to come crashing down onto the quaintly undulating creaky floorboards.
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The bar is creaky and crooked, with blood-red walls.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both gemination and creaky phonation are a form of fortition.
Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing
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We entered the throng, found the small reception area and were soon climbing slightly creaky stairs to our room.
Times, Sunday Times
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It takes me five to ten minutes to start enjoying it, to break through the creaky straight-jacket of inertia and hit my stride, but I did and took the lead up hill and down path and up hill again, where we spied saddlebacks and other birdlife.
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And neither will the Euro, because the underlying economy that supports the Euro is creaky and undynamic.
Bernanke on the Jobless Recovery, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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One creaky old man shouted in frustration, ‘I just cannae understand ya, hen!’
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And if he wins, he allows the free market to energize and renew a huge creaky behemoth.
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Those scripts had occasional moments of truth but were stuck in a rut of creaky sentiment and melodramatics.
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I grew up in an old, creaky New England colonial farmhouse set up on a drumlin.
Random stuff
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Great news if you're creaky at the knees.
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When they are successful a bell rings and a mechanical buddha lights up and makes a creaky obeisance.
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She threw back her bedcovers and tiptoed over to her desk, making sure she avoided the creaky floorboard under the ragged rug.
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His love for fire fighting is promptly extinguished one day when the big-bellied porker runs into a burning warehouse and falls through the creaky floor.
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But there are so many other legendary challenges out there, and so few years left before my creaky old knees finally scream'you cannot be serious!
Times, Sunday Times
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The chromaticised appoggiaturas in the melismata iron out the bitonality of the creaky accompaniment into Phrygian E minor, as the final stanza returns from recollection to the table here and now.
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As a recap, I had come to a couple of major revelations on PIE that diverge from the "mainstream" but problematic view:One: The unlikely phonological system can finally be rationalized by turning palatal stops to plain ones and plain stops to uvular ones while shifting phonation to a contrast between creaky and plain voice rather than plain versus breathy.
New pdf on Indo-European verbs
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The thing's creaky voice was a cross between nails on a blackboard and a door that seriously needed oiling.
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But the pop landscape has changed in his absence, and at times he looked a bit creaky.
Times, Sunday Times
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W. is the sort of movie we can't help but evaluate in part by comparing its actors to the public figures they impersonate and trying to determine whether the performances transcend impersonation," notes Thandie Newton, in a creaky, sketch-comedy-grade caricature of Jeffrey Wright, so scene-stealingly good as a deeply concerned
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Eventually, the creaky hinges swung open with a younger, brown haired, freckled boy standing just inside, looking at me.
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To the left were old creaky looking stairs, going to the second floor.
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There was a beautiful old fireplace and deliciously creaky wooden floors and doors.
Times, Sunday Times
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The house is old and creaky, stairs to half-floors leading from narrow rooms and confusing passages as if designed by M.C. Escher.
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Just as I've blogged before, I still advocate uvular and creaky-voiced phonemes to help rebalance the system and bring it in line with what we currently understand about phonology and its tendencies.
A revisal of the PIE sound system
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Keep in mind that in my phonological model of PIE, only traditionally "breathy voiced" stops exhibit uninterrupted voicing throughout the phoneme while "plain stops" are reinterpreted with marked phonation, creaky voice ie. interrupted voice.
Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops
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Rust may not sleep, but it accrues over time, transforming the once joyous mosher who imagined himself as the fifth Replacement into a creaky old rocker that is just one pony-tail short of a cartoon that draws itself.
Bonnaroo: Visions of My Morning Jacket (and Disco Naps on the Grass) - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
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Then there were sounds like soft footfalls which started in the area of the tower, then moved across the creaky boards of the attic.
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If you take it away without knowing what else to put there it will leave a very creaky floor.
Times, Sunday Times
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creaky" -- will be familiar with the body of work of Brian Eno.
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Or even as a working class woman in Bradford, reliant on the creaky National Health Service.
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There was a creaky sound and then the mesh door swung open.
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Rich dad stood and shut the creaky old wooden window that needed repair. If you learn this lesson, you will grow into a wise, wealthy and happy young man.
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But there are so many other legendary challenges out there, and so few years left before my creaky old knees finally scream'you cannot be serious!
Times, Sunday Times
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The play, which runs until January 8, tells the story of an American family who move into a creaky old hall only to discover that they are not alone.
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Age and creaky joints aside, if cobwebs and their makers are as prevalent in the grape rows as I found in the lavendar rows, I'm afraid that would deter me more than aches and pains.
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Rich dad stood and shut the creaky old wooden window that needed repair. If you learn this lesson, you will grow into a wise, wealthy and happy young man.
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I'm a little too old and far too creaky to dance round the maypole but I did do a little jig by the oak tree.
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She carefully crept down the hall, making sure to avoid the creaky floorboards, towards Jordan's office.
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Like, the ones where some idealistic young couple moves to a creaky old New England house from the Midwest and they thing everything's gonna be awesome and countryfied but actually they're about to get chomped.
The Big Photo Post of Moving DOOM
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There comes an inevitable time in life when the arthritic old joints become a bit too creaky for swings and chutes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The long VOT of these voiced stops would tend then to be reinterpreted in loanwords into Mid IE as _creaky stops_ which also have longer VOT what you are calling "ejective" according to Glottalic Theory.
A list of possible Proto-Semitic loanwords in PIE
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With just 28 tiny rooms, only some of which feature bathrooms — other showers and toilets are located in the hallway — the creaky-staired, hostel-style Amsterdam Inn, which offers accommodations for as little as $99 a night, is popular with European tourists and remains profitable, according to several sources.
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‘You know that I started this town, men,’ he said in his creaky old voice.
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Creaky pylons and insect chirrups fill the periphery; Frisell is beginning to be unpredictable again…
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Tropylium: "You suggested geminate glottalized creaky.
Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing
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She began to sneak towards Rosette's bedroom; avoiding the few creaky floorboards like the plague.
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As a recap, I had come to a couple of major revelations on PIE that diverge from the "mainstream" but problematic view:One: The unlikely phonological system can finally be rationalized by turning palatal stops to plain ones and plain stops to uvular ones while shifting phonation to a contrast between creaky and plain voice rather than plain versus breathy.
New pdf on Indo-European verbs
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No gushers, no oil spewing down like black rain from creaky wooden derricks.
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Muscles groaned as they were used one more time, and his creaky voice almost didn't make it out.
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creaky stairs
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The offices were in a creaky old three-storey building.
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A creaky door led to a small shower room with plush red towels.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is even more surprising, given its immensely distinguished author, to find it so wooden, creaky and unrelievedly dull.
Times, Sunday Times
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Outside London, no professional police force was in place and the mechanisms of control available to the authorities were old-fashioned and creaky.
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He kept his jeans and sweaters in a plastic suitcase under the creaky bed.
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Between the intermittent razor-sharp lines, he lumbers his cast with some creaky, faintly anachronistic hipster jive dialogue.
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In the middle of her pacing, she heard creaky sounds coming from outside.
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I walked up the creaky stairs up to the hallway where the dorms were, letting my bags thump behind me.
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This creaky sitcom must have been conceived in an airless conference room by executives anxious to appeal to a particular demographic.
Times, Sunday Times
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This creaky sitcom must have been conceived in an airless conference room by executives anxious to appeal to a particular demographic.
Times, Sunday Times
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The film is based on a Disney theme park ride, but feels like a creaky merry-go-round compared with the thrilling rollercoaster that was Pirates Of The Caribbean.
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Finally, when it was dark in the house and Uncle Rich's snores echoed along the creaky hallway - I could hear my little brother crying.
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In other words, [ss] is an allophone of *s and [tt] is an allophone of *t until Voicing turns these sounds into different phonemes, *z and creaky *d̰.
A few more words on my new Gemination rule for Pre-IE
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May it be a long war, thinks I, watching her bouncing out of sight, and then my attention was taken by the major-domo, muttering the eternal "Pajalsta, excellence," and leading me up the broad, creaky staircase, along a turning passage, and finally halting at a broad door.
The Sky Writer
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I stare through the comic turns, the cardboard walls and doors, the creaky plots, the clunking dialogue.
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The rooms are small—except for the disproportionately huge rectangular dining room—and need work, but possess charm: uneven floorboards, crumbly thick moulding, lumpy mullioned windows, and a creaky stairway.
Exit the Actress
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I propose that the unstressed pretonic syllable *qaw- in the Proto-Semitic word was already misheard as a labialized creaky-voiced velar *gʷ when it was borrowed into Mid IE.
Ejective or Pharyngealized Stops in Proto-Semitic?
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I waited an hour in a line that didn't move in the creaky airport in Accra.
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The stairs were dark and creaky, but when they reached the bottom, the children found themselves in a clean, well-lit room lined with dozens of large heated aquariums.
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I descend the narrow, creaky staircase and notice another public-service-law-oriented program on the lower floors.
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Are the doors closing with a ‘click’ sound or making creaky noises?
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All that happens with age is the equipment gets creaky, that is it. the brain doesn't have to change at all.
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I head up the creaky stairs that scream silently in my ears.
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I think I prefer to see him as one of those ageing mongrels one sees with creaky back legs, white whiskers and erratic bowel movements.
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a creaky shack
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They made their way up to the fourth floor via a creaky flight of steps.
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The result is a mingling of million-dollar condos and sleek wine bars with creaky, rent-controlled buildings and graffiti-pocked bodegas.
Prospect Heights Edges Into Crown Heights
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They, of all people, will have creaky joints and damaged knees as they genuflect to the tax-cutting elite in this country.
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He kept his jeans and sweaters in a plastic suitcase under the creaky bed.
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Now , stopping illegal immigration must go handhand with reforming our creaky system of legal immigration.
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It's a slow and laborious process, though, on a creaky old dial-up phone connection.
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I made my way painfully along the small hallway and down the creaky stairs towards the front door.
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Creaky voice also called laryngealisation, pulse phonation or, in singing, vocal fry or glottal fry, is a special kind of phonation in which the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx are drawn together; as a result, the vocal folds are compressed rather tightly, becoming relatively slack and compact, and forming a large, irregularly vibrating mass.
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Declan pushed her into a creaky old elevator, holding her tightly as it started moving upwards.
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I enjoyed having this historic house to myself, complete with creaky floorboards, winding stairs, several portraits and all the original door handles.
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There comes an inevitable time in life when the arthritic old joints become a bit too creaky for swings and chutes.
Times, Sunday Times
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A creaky door led to a small shower room with plush red towels.
Times, Sunday Times
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A high-frequency whine electrifies the track throughout while several multi-tracked guitars try to cough up a creaky melody.
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Inside it's all creaky floorboards and wooden panelling, yet he pooh-poohs the idea of a ghost.
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Mawdsley's production is flabby, and only highlights the play's creaky construction, but the cast are good value and make the most of the often sparky dialogue.
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Aimee walked down the creaky stairs and raised her eyebrows.
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I just hope that my creaky knees and dodgy back last the course.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, I've also been pondering today on the possibility that the voicing here also involves laryngealization aka creaky voicing1.
Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing
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He forced himself to climb the creaky staircase and check the upstairs rooms, but they were all empty save for one of the bedrooms that contained a rusty iron bedstead with even rustier springs.
Ricochet
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A lift was added to make the four storeys easier on creaky knees.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here the creaky melodrama is swept away by Tchaikovsky's lyrical music.
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I ignored the eyes that followed us as we descended the creaky stairs, but my hands clutched slightly tighter.
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Creaky voice also called laryngealisation, pulse phonation or, in singing, vocal fry or glottal fry, is a special kind of phonation in which the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx are drawn together; as a result, the vocal folds are compressed rather tightly, becoming relatively slack and compact, and forming a large, irregularly vibrating mass.
Archive 2007-07-01
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For example, if sheep grazing on commonage lost their markings, quick traditional methods were to hand to allocate the animals and so avoid the creaky slowness of the law.
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It has fantastic creaky floorboards, and a big winding staircase that in the 24 hours we've been here I've already almost fallen down twice.
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As she walked up the old creaky stairs a sound caught Elizabeth's ears: the sound of a flutelike instrument playing a soft unfamiliar melody.
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It's feeling a little old and decrepit and creaky.
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Instead it came first in creaky agricultural countries, and never did come where he expected it.
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Bumper car and Ferris wheel rides can charitably be described as "creaky.
Tom Doctoroff: What Foreigners Can Learn at the Shanghai Zoo
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Yet i sedimentary few the degrader that ectoproct has to thraldom ahead screaky phagocytic out of the adventurism, and officiation humbling the battle dictostylium.
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This creaky sitcom must have been conceived by executives anxious to appeal to a particular demographic.
Times, Sunday Times
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The chromaticised appoggiaturas in the melismata iron out the bitonality of the creaky accompaniment into Phrygian E minor, as the final stanza returns from recollection to the table here and now.
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my creaky old joints
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Young, feisty Iris leaves her creaky, would-be suitor in the dust as they engage in the sort of witty, erudite repartee that exists only in films.
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MIDI technology and digital synths have replaced creaky old unreliable analogue methods.
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This creaky sitcom must have been conceived in an airless conference room by executives anxious to appeal to a particular demographic.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jacob ascended the creaky stairs on his way to Peter's apartment.
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That shopping is the new religion is a creaky old cliché.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lifts are old and creaky and there are no ski passes: instead, you have to pay for each ride as you take it.
Times, Sunday Times
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I find this implausible and unnecessary2 and I have already settled on laryngealization ie. creaky phonation, with derivative word-internal pre-laryngealization, as a superior alternative to wholesale preglottalization in all environments.
Against the *dkmtóm camp
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Despite the fact the volume has to be cranked for anything at all to be heard, dialogue comes through fine, but the score sounds creaky and shrill.
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As soon as she was dressed, Adrianna walked down the creaky stairs and into the living room.
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Aidan jerked at the creaky rasp of words inches from his ear.
Earl of Durkness
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The creaky old house and its odd inhabitants have not given up all their secrets.
Times, Sunday Times
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The brakes wheeze and the windows shudder, the seats are cracked and creaky.
