SQUEAK in a Sentence

Learn SQUEAK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
25 example sentences for SQUEAK, such as:
1. It neither grated nor squeaked.
2. Yes, his first squeak should be.
3. The carriage squeaked in rhythm.
4. They squeaked through underneath.
5. One of the jurors had a pencil that squeaked.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SQUEAK
squeak
 n.  something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin
 v.  make a high-pitched, screeching noise
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  That Injun devil wouldn't make any more of drownding us than a couple of cats, if we was to squeak 'bout this and they didn't hang him.'
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  Pitty gave a little squeak, like a mouse who feels the trap snap down, as she saw massed in the doorway, a Yankee captain and a squad of bluecoats.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
3  Yes, his first squeak should be.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
4  He listened to the cries: like the squeak of mice behind the wainscot: a shrill twofold note.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
5  The carriage squeaked in rhythm.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  One chair squeaked with his great weight, and they screamed with fright, and woke the baby and brought everybody running.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
7  I know I'm a blacksmith at takin keer a sick folks, an yeh never squeaked.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
8  One of the jurors had a pencil that squeaked.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI. Who Stole the Tarts?
9  They squeaked through underneath.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII.
10  Her porch was bright with the bought luxury of star-shine; the wicker of the settee squeaked fashionably as she turned toward him and he kissed her curious and lovely mouth.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
11  She had not yet gone to bed when the Rostovs arrived and the pulley of the hall door squeaked from the cold as it let in the Rostovs and their servants.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI
12  It neither grated nor squeaked.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL
13  Louisa Ivanovna consented to go, and in half an hour four troyka sleighs with large and small bells, their runners squeaking and whistling over the frozen snow, drove up to the porch.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X
14  The old count's troyka, with Dimmler and his party, started forward, squeaking on its runners as though freezing to the snow, its deep-toned bell clanging.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X
15  Nicholas set off, following the first sleigh; behind him the others moved noisily, their runners squeaking.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X
Example Sentence:
1  The gun control measures narrowly squeaked through Congress.
2  My maths is poor, and I squeaked by the finals.