Word: croak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...which the real Mr. Thatcher might croak, "Hear, hear...
...compare to them." This is how Bryant talked, and prophetic lines muttered by him over the past year or two could be repeated last week without a chill. Coming from him they were not ghoulish: they were true. What would Bear do if he ever quit coaching football? "Probably croak in a week." Where would he go? "I imagine I'd go straight to the graveyard...
...higher, older pitch and the new low voice have an interesting effect in songs such as "Keep It Open," where she sounds like several different people. But the harshness becomes irritating in the beginning of "Night of the Swallow" and grating when she reduces her voice to a croak in certain parts of "Houdini...
...blinked, swallowed, croak-ily joked about hay fever. The tears would not stop leaking through...
Scriptwriter, Mario Vargas Llosa Famous Last Words, Timothy Findley ∙ The Frog Who Dared to Croak, Richard Sennett ∙Mantissa, John Fowles∙ Someone Else's Money, Michael M. Thomas ∙The Woods, David Plante