Noun : their last squeak to correct the manuscript. From Dictionary.com.
My 50mm 1.4 starts "squeaking" louder during AF and starts not focusing some of the time. From Wordnik.com. [News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] Reference
A kind of squeaking tone: 'Now, then, no nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [Voskresenie. English] Reference
Suddenly the assistant again put on a stern expression, and called out in a kind of squeaking tone: ‘Now, then, no nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [Resurrection] Reference
They would come squeaking along one after another. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
And the shrill squeaking bat makes his circles again. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
There was no answer, though the squeaking continued. From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
All at once there was a loud squeaking, grinding sound. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lu's City Home] Reference
It was a squeaking sound, as though a door had been opened. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat] Reference
"What is your name?" she asked, in a high, squeaking voice that. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at School] Reference
Mrs. Swiggs shakes her head, squeaking out with great animation. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
She heard him moving around above her, the floor squeaking occasionally. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Incarnations and One Thousand Deaths - Part II] Reference
E sighs, moves around on the couch, the fake leather squeaking as she shifts. From Wordnik.com. [Weather] Reference
Those who have heard him will never forget the squeaking voice and haggard look. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
Captain's high and squeaking voice, reddening at the face and his scar purpling. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Panting, with its huge springs squeaking, the locomotive started the string of cars. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference
But when I reached the age of puberty, it starts cracking and squeaking and breaking up. From Wordnik.com. [Dig It: 'The Ultimate Isaac Hayes'] Reference
Andy is safe but just squeaking by, and he's still inexplicably pleased as punch with his look. From Wordnik.com. [Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway Episode 8, "A Rough Day on the Runway"] Reference
The front door squeaking closed against the deadbolt and doorjamb as Father returned from work. From Wordnik.com. [The Nielsens (part two)] Reference
She has the winning habit of squeaking a little when she goes for the big effect, then retreating. From Wordnik.com. [HELLO DARKNESS MY OLD FRIEND] Reference
Tidi and Didi scampered around squeaking as loudly as possible that the vertical worms had come back. From Wordnik.com. [Animal Park (Part I)] Reference
It was the winter I first grew hair down there, the winter of the squeaking voice. From Wordnik.com. [Bloody Knuckles] Reference
My apartment seemed empty now, without the squeaking that usually greeted me upon opening the front door. From Wordnik.com. [May the Road Rise Up to Meet You] Reference
The animal has tremendous hearing but all that it hears is the stomping of feet and the squeaking of wheels. From Wordnik.com. [Animals in the Sky] Reference
But that night her back board made bongo beats on the wall in rhythm with the squeaking bed and the moaning choir. From Wordnik.com. [Wipe Your Feet at the Door of Sex] Reference
Momma Pet comes alive, squeaking; the Thief hits at me with sticks, and I have her, pulling her towards the opening. From Wordnik.com. [S OWN STORY(1)] Reference
"I'd like to know how the girl who had that room before I took it, stood that awful squeaking noise," said the visitor. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
(Soundbite of a door squeaking) ARNOLD: While the Long March was a military retreat, it was also a massive propaganda tour. From Wordnik.com. [Tracing A Father's Steps On China's Long March] Reference
Lying warm in my bed these December nights, I hear the branches of an old yew tree squeaking against cold, clouded windows. From Wordnik.com. [A Life Changed by a 1950s Christmas] Reference
My previous boss, Chet Atkins, a four-term incumbent from Massachusetts, had lost in 1992 after squeaking by the previous cycle. From Wordnik.com. [To keep the 2010 midterms from repeating 1994, Democrats can learn from Reagan] Reference
They were building a nest inside our walls, itching, pin-pricking, squeaking to the querulous demands of their squat black queen. From Wordnik.com. [HOUSE OF DREAMS] Reference
It wasn't very long before I heard the squeaky wheels again, except this time the squeaking sounded more desperate. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Dreams of Reality, Chapter 15] Reference
He made a squeaking sound with the sole of his black sneakers as he turned and walked away, disappearing amidst the other pink meats. From Wordnik.com. [Who Will Carry Us?] Reference
The squeaking noise of the loose boards in the floor went on, and then Bert heard a sound, as though soft footsteps were coming toward him. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat] Reference
After a minute or two of furious contention, victory seemed to rest with one of the combatants, for the other fled, squeaking as with pain. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
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