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Sentence Examples I'm not certain that I can, but if nothing else, I will now be bombarded with headhunters until the day I croak my last. Of course, annual species, like geraniums and impatiens, are supposed to croak every year after dropping their seeds. I'm less impressed with the recent work, which is mostly a stony croak over monotonal and mostly inert melodies, but it's not all bad. Not because you won't drop weight, but because you'll croak if you eat if after you lose weight. Every director knows that someone could croak during production, and no one gives it any thought. Don't worry I'll say nice things at your funeral when you finally croak from all the stress. Having only a croak of a voice, I managed to screech out one chorus but apart from that was blessedly relieved from the pressure to sing. My older brother Maniramji lost his voice in 1944 and could not even croak leave alone sing. Each frog species has its own unique call or croak, and some create ribbits so loud they can be heard up to a mile away. I just opened my mouth to try and speak and all that I could manage was a rasping croak. Even when illness had shackled him to a wheelchair and reduced his voice to a croak, he never hid from his fellow man. He winced as if the words were somehow painful, and when he spoke, it was in a hoarse croak. My thoughts, however, stubbornly refused to cling to the issue and when a hoarse croak broke loose from high above me, I started violently. Her voice sounded like a deafened croak as she crouched by the girl's side. Then Corith's frog gave a croak and shot up pink gas from its purple spots that smelled faintly of cherry coke. Her eyes widened and she wanted to scream, but her throat was suddenly dry and only a hoarse croak escaped her throat. She doesn't remember the very first day the nightingale's song metamorphosed into a crow's croak. His voice gave out on the final syllable, his distressed croak fading abruptly into an almost inaudible squeak. She tried to yell at him, but her voice came out sounding more like a croak. Then you hear them reading their poems and instead of rich and resonant voice full of authority and confidence there's a thin, reedy croak. Show More Sentences Frogs and toads croak out a strange mating ritual in a concrete drainage ditch. Office etiquette nevertheless dictates that you must still croak down the phone when you ring in sick. For so long have I been silent that even my voice comes forth in a veritable croak. Crickets sang in stereo and a distant croak of a frog interrupted the hum. Their voices have the drunken croak and rumble of old crows. When the voice spoke, it was a hoarse croak, thunderous and deep. A second croak tore like a whip-lash through the silent forest. My hoarse croak was in complete odds with her, happy, sedated voice. My throat was so sore that it must have sounded more like a croak. Ravens croak replies to the squeaks and cries of marmot and pika. He said that trains are going quite slowly when they enter the station, so people often take a long time to croak and are sometimes still alive when he arrives. Listening to a toad croak, concentrating on it, eased his mind. There was no trace of human life, only the croak of a raven and a trickling stream. The occasional croak drifted down from on high as a raven returned to the Temple of Heaven. With the oil-lamp flickering and the croak of frogs outside, it was an atmospheric place to spend a couple of nights. In a sweat, you stumble forth and manage to croak out your lines without getting them garbled. He struggled to scream out against the ignominy of dying this way, in a common criminal act, but only a weak croak left his lips. Wood Frogs croak hoarsely and often rapidly as soon as the ponds are free of ice. When Tony takes over Danny's body, his voice begins to croak and he shakes his pointer finger for emphasis. And then I sit on a bench facing the grave and a raven says something in a croak a few steps from me. Show More Sentences Gone is the hokey croak which saw him verging on self-parody and in comes a delicious lugubriousness that's akin to lumpy honey. Then, there is the third and most common option, which defies all logic: you enter a weird catarrhal limbo that requires you to expectorate the words in English with a heavy Gothic croak. However many frogs croak, the result will only ever be a croaking sound. No on had time to answer, for just then all frogdom seemed to croak inquiringly, in answer to the sounds coming from the burlap bag. A mating male frog, for example, can tell the size of an encroacher by comparing the encroacher's croak with its own. He told the two scientists that he had found a southern leopard frog with a very strange croak. The mysterious croak of the toad is the song, it is the mantra. Listen for the tenor-like song of the wompoo fruit-dove, the haunting call of the spotted catbird and the Kermit croak of the large-tailed nightjar. The cuckoo gurnard growls, the imperial angel fish pops, the moonfish grinds, the stone loach burps, the Ucayali catfish sings, and drum fish grunt, croak, snore or drum. To make a louder croak, many frogs inflate their vocal sacs while calling. Examples from Classical Literature He had not vocalized since fledgling days and his voice had a jarring croak of disuse. All the same though, this cough won't do me the service of making me croak. A harsh croak greeted him, and he recognized the crippled sailor who called himself Kurt the knacker. The croak of the heron and the call of the whimbrel are common speech with him. No sound broke the stillness save the far-off bark of a dog or an occasional croak from a bullfrog. He tried to cry out, but the effort resulted only in a croak in his throat. The pteranodon rose, sounding its raucous croak as if in mockery. I hate to borrow as much as Mother does, and I knew Aunt March would croak, she always does, if you ask for a ninepence. If you wanted to drink by yourself, you could croak by yourself. Although he suffers from a cold, We joy to hear him speak, For words of wisdom from him fall, In spite of croak or squeak. His mirth was hoarse and ghastly, like a raven's croak, and the sick wolf joined him, howling lugubriously. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of croak? Words that rhyme with croak What is the past tense of croak? What is the plural of croak? What is the adverb for croak? What is the adjective for croak? What is the noun for croak? Translations for croak Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words CRNA CRM critters critter Crittenden critiquing croaked croaker croakers croaking croaks croaky 5-letter Words Starting With c cr cro croa