Meanings of ominous creaking in English

An ominous creaking and swaying and cracking followed, but no actual rupture.

From the attic came an ominous creaking-woodbeing strained to the breaking point.

There are ominous creaking sounds that might be belts and chains.

There was an ominous creaking and he jumped off hastily.

All at once there was an ominous creaking and snapping directly above where they lay.

Jakob Kuisl was already going up the ladder, which made ominous creaking noises under his weight.

Then it burst with a deafening roar: a roar which was followed by an ominous creaking.

There is an ominous creaking noise.

He pressed on the cloth; an ominous creaking warned him that Big Flower objected to being shut by force, and threatened to break.

I was hovering uneasily on the verge of sleep, when my ears picked up an ominous creaking of floorboards in the hall outside.

The door to the dragon king's chamber swung open with an ominous creaking sound, and as Valsavis stepped through, he said, "Your hinges need oiling."