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Discover LudwigThe word "creaking" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe something making a creaking noise, especially when referring to a door or floorboard. For example, "The floorboard creaked as I stepped on it."
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Tracks such as Drops feature unexpectedly creaking doors and Smoking Pixels is a noir bagatelle, whistled in".
But I would think, 'Now, for heaven's sake, Labour, you have to embrace electoral reform' because we are operating under a voting system that is creaking at the seams, that is not fit for purpose".
A small matter of five goals rattled in against Chivas has restored Houston's confidence at exactly the wrong time for the Revs, whose once-solid defense has begun creaking on the run-in.
The policies she has released so far appear to diverge from staunch conservatism – she supports Labor's National Broadband Network over the Coalition's, is comfortable with same-sex marriage, urges compassion for refugees and wants the creaking train service fixed.
Ukip, the rightwing populist party that favours British withdrawal from the European Union, won 4 million votes but only a single seat due to the vagaries of Britain's electoral system, built for two large parties and now creaking under the weight of many smaller ones.
The farm's arch in Bermondsey, alongside the Little Bread Pedlar, La Grotta Ices, Coleman Coffee Roasters and Neal's Yard Dairy, is home to trestle tables creaking with tin tubs of purple-fringed kale, neatly arranged wicker trays of asparagus and buckets of tulips and cherry blossom.
The chain is creaking under the weight of its debts and has faced management upheaval in recent years.
Google Maps claims to be on a "never-ending quest for the perfect map", and one might hope that with the creaking weight of information now available, the goal of a truly accurate and truly objective map may finally be within reach.
David Pountney, artistic director of the Bregenz Festival Think of Austrian hotels and the images that spring most readily to mind are the yellow pine interiors of a cheap ski chalet, or the creaking turrets of some gothic castle.
The British voting system is creaking.
The antiquated voting system is creaking under the strain.
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