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Meanings of creaky in anglès
Sinònims
Examples for "derelict"
Examples for "derelict"
1
Turning back, Rardove sailed a brief look over the young, derelict soldiers.
2
The building seemed even more derelict than it had twenty minutes ago.
3
Property porn was a great escape: derelict castles, run-down farms, lighthouse conversions.
4
Some promoters didn't share our concern, and staged events in derelict warehouses.
5
The city, the island, now carried the haunted feel of a derelict.
1
Tens of thousands of children enter Russia's decrepit orphanage system every year.
2
The decrepit regime Syria's president heads is getting really good at repression.
3
The second house was a converted detached garage in back, equally decrepit.
4
Its location in the middle of Dublin 4 belied its decrepit state.
5
Family after family arrives, each claiming a decrepit ancestor amid high-decibel greetings.
1
Nodding without really understanding, Luke indicated the run-down though obviously popular cantina.
2
It is far from the stereotypical image of a run-down city suburb.
3
Although the house was run-down, the land itself was a gold mine.
4
He gave a run-down on the relatively new science of marine bio-acoustics.
5
But truly, Marianne, this place was almost as run-down as Woods House.
1
At once his countenance fell; he turned upon me a woebegone eye.
2
Withhold not Thy countenance from the tears and beseechings of the woebegone.
3
The boys groaned in unison at this, and even Betty looked woebegone.
4
The Wobegon Boy in question, John Tollefson, should be anything but woebegone.
5
She looked very pale and woebegone when she came down to breakfast.
1
The last thing Lucius needed was a flea-bitten monster disrupting his household.
2
You flea-bitten harpy, have not you had enough of me today?
3
You are worse than a dog, you old flinty-faced, flea-bitten scrub.
4
He was a mouse-coloured, slate-coloured, flea-bitten roan- dun, if you can conceive it.
5
Gertie was skinny and flea-bitten, but she started licking my face.
Usage of creaky in anglès
1
You have to add creaky voice and it means something totally different.
2
Analogous measures can be taken to keep creaky old operating systems working.
3
These creaky old tools could adapt better to how we work today.
4
Mr Verloc heard the creaky plank in the floor, and was content.
5
Then I heard the scraping of a creaky portal on the floor.
6
And the decks it's looking out from appear increasingly creaky and junked.
7
St Petersburg's creaky roofs are one thing, its creaky lifts quite another.
8
But how will its creaky noughts-and-crosses format fare in the modern age?
9
But jammed at random between the creaky cabins were the new structures.
10
Using the handrail, he pulled himself up, bypassing the creaky ninth step.
11
Her spine didn't feel like a creaky mass of bones rubbing together.
12
Thorndyke asked, as the cabman's footsteps faded away in a creaky diminuendo.
13
In one corner was a creaky rocking chair and a CD player.
14
Constrained by her burden, the matron attempted a creaky and impertinent curtsey.
15
That creaky metaphor does capture the joy and terrors of interviewing Denis.
16
He leaned back on his creaky office throne and cradled his fingers.
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Creaky through the time
Creaky across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common