They were alerted by the creaking gate.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

High up, silver-winged gulls curved and dipped and called their creaking signals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angel Island] Reference

 My experience is that this creaking occurs when the cassette becomes totally dry, particularly the freehub body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Technical FAQ with Lennard Zinn: Bike creaking solutions] Reference

We seemed to hear a kind of creaking, but this creaking sounded joyful.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Once the glass started breaking, did you feel the house kind of creaking and swaying?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2006] Reference

The constant 'creaking' noise in the Tok'ra tunnels, as if they are about collapse at any moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stargate SG-1 Watchathon - 'The Tok'ra' (S02E11)] Reference

The sound came again, a kind of creaking that reminded Bek of the ship's rigging working against spars and cleats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ilse Witch]

We listened with interest to their cry, which was a kind of creaking bleat.    From Wordnik.com.  [X. Bird Reserves at the Mouth of the Mississippi] Reference

In a moment the rocking horse would start creaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watershed] Reference

He leans back, his chair creaking beneath his weight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Problems Pretty Girls With Pretty Faces Face] Reference

And way to take the TV crews across the creaking ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Weakerthans: Curlers, Bigfoot-Spotters Unite] Reference

I rode for two days (not solid) with absolutely no creaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Technical FAQ with Lennard Zinn: Removing headset top caps, seatpost creaking, and more solutions to mystery creaks] Reference

(Soundbite of creaking door) Mr. JAMAL: That's where they play.    From Wordnik.com.  [In East Jerusalem, A School Where Kids Can Be Kids] Reference

There's little weird sort of like creaking chairs here and there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grizzly Bear: An Old 'House,' a New 'Friend'] Reference

He began to rock again, pushing with his legs, the rocker creaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of Autumn] Reference

Michael moved the door back and forth listening to the creaking sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Impossible Man - Ep. 10: Round 1.] Reference

While riding the bike in the early spring I had no problems with creaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Technical FAQ with Lennard Zinn: Removing headset top caps, seatpost creaking, and more solutions to mystery creaks] Reference

But the long recession and creaking recovery have undermined that strategy.    From Wordnik.com.  [P] Reference

He held her tightly and listened to the creaking house and the seeping winds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ex] Reference

One other item subject to creaking that most people overlook is pedal cleats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Technical FAQ with Lennard Zinn: Bike creaking solutions] Reference

This frenetic pace of expansion led to the supply chain creaking under pressure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pantaloon's Retail Redo] Reference

One of his greatest challenges will be the country's creaking National Health Service.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting The Hang Of Power] Reference

I heard Penny's door slam shut and the creaking on the stairs of someone heading down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 14] Reference

A certain bohemianism and lawlessness still lingered in their creaking house in Berkeley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rereading: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon] Reference

 It was the creaking floorboards under Walter's cumbersome gait that stifled the tension.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Bout Apples] Reference

(Soundbite of door creaking) MIKE PESCA, host: Some people swore that the house was haunted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minutes Counting Down For Three-Minute Fiction] Reference

The minute after I got the shot, there was a creaking and straining, and the platform collapsed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Photographer Dmitri Kasterine's best shot] Reference

Her hands were gesturing - on and on - an endless loop of fingers with rusted creaking knuckles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tissue] Reference

I posed a question to you a couple weeks ago regarding creaking coming from my Basso carbon bike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Technical FAQ with Lennard Zinn: Removing headset top caps, seatpost creaking, and more solutions to mystery creaks] Reference

We are like those anxious characters in the suspense movies who have just heard an unmistakable creaking on the stair.    From Wordnik.com.  [War And Recession] Reference

The system is creaking along on life support, but to make any truly painful changes Blair will require all-party support.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wounded Winner] Reference

The city's infrastructure is creaking; citizens face power shortages, maddening traffic jams and poor public transportation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A CHANGE OF ADDRESS] Reference

Every sentence is a creaking struggle, and staring out the window with a vague sense of desperation rapidly becomes a coping strategy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forget those creative writing workshops. If you want to write, get threatened] Reference

"Our current licensing laws are creaking under the strain," says Tessa Jowell, the senior cabinet minister responsible for the new law.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pulling More Pints] Reference

Then there's the perennial NIMBY problem: no one wants to open their window shade and see a new industrial turbine creaking in the breeze.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mightier Wind] Reference