CROAK in a Sentence

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22 example sentences for CROAK, such as:

1. And I hope Aunt March won't croak.
2. The croak would be almost identical.
3. He sat on the playground listening to the distant croak.
4. Everyone seemed rather out of sorts and inclined to croak.
5. Laurie opened the window, and croaked out as hoarsely as a raven.

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 Meanings and Examples of CROAK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
croak
 n.  low or coarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  Amy chirped like a cricket, and Jo wandered through the airs at her own sweet will, always coming out at the wrong place with a croak or a quaver that spoiled the most pensive tune.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ONE
2  Everyone seemed rather out of sorts and inclined to croak.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
3  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.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIFTEEN
4  And I hope Aunt March won't croak.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SIXTEEN
5  Men always croak when they are hungry, and Jo whisked out at the front door after that.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
6  Then the bandit thrice imitated the cry of a crow; a croak answered this signal.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits.
7  But so it is the same thing that all the frogs croak before a storm.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 16
8  As if a rook had hopped unseen to a prominent bald branch, he touched his collar and hemmed his preliminary croak.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
9  The croak would be almost identical.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II—GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH
10  Then the peasant pinched the raven's head, so that he croaked and made a noise like krr, krr.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE LITTLE PEASANT
11  Then the peasant once more pinched the raven's head till he croaked loudly.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE LITTLE PEASANT
12  Laurie opened the window, and croaked out as hoarsely as a raven.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
13  Nothing stirred over the vast expanse save a pair of ravens, which croaked loudly from a tor behind us.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
14  On the way he passed by a marsh, in which a number of frogs were sitting croaking.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE THREE LANGUAGES
15  Scarcely had he spoken these words when he heard a croaking over his head, and looked up and saw seven ravens as black as coal flying round and round.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE SEVEN RAVENS
Example Sentence:
1  He sat on the playground listening to the distant croak.