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- adverb In a
creaky manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a creaky manner
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Examples
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The show began creakily with 15 minutes of footage from her new DVD Rickie Lee Jones -- Live In Stockholm.
Michael Giltz: Music: Rickie Lee Jones Swashbuckles Through "Pirates" at City Winery Michael Giltz 2011
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The antis are wised-up technologically and make good use of the internet (compare the creakily archaic bullfight industry, which continues to function more or less as if the world wide web had never been invented).
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When he opened his eyes this time, he found himself tied to a cart, being wheeled creakily through a dollhouse-sized town square.
Gulliver’s Travels Movie Novelization Sarah Willson 2010
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The priest acknowledged this fact and rose creakily to his feet.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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Vol 1 was written in a garrulous, occasionally creakily cod-archaic style, but was at least quite well-written, according to the rather limited aesthetic criteria of this kind of writing.
Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 4: The Shadow Rising (1992) Adam Roberts 2010
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Dick Bird's sets, lit by Jennifer Schriever, often create magical stage pictures with billowing sea, fairy-lights and a creakily rocking barque.
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And that's what Mr. Woods did over the course of 13½ minutes — about 90 seconds longer than the Who's halftime show at Super Bowl XLIV, and a thousand times as creakily choreographed.
Maybe We All Need Rehab Jason Gay 2010
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The priest acknowledged this fact and rose creakily to his feet.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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More on Twitter Follow Jason Gay at twitter. com/wsjcouch And that's what Mr. Woods did over the course of 13½ minutes — about 90 seconds longer than the Who's halftime show at Super Bowl XLIV, and a thousand times as creakily choreographed.
Maybe We All Need Rehab Jason Gay 2010
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Vol 1 was written in a garrulous, occasionally creakily cod-archaic style, but was at least quite well-written, according to the rather limited aesthetic criteria of this kind of writing.
Archive 2010-04-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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