"I heard a creak, a long creak," Humble told The Associated Press in a phone interview.
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"When you get to be 43 years old you start getting a little creak here and another creak there," said Nicklaus.
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He hears a car door creak open — then another.
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The only sound made is a sort of metallic creak.
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Hardly a rattle, creak or squeak was to be heard.
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Also, it doesn't, you know, creak when you close it.
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Bridges creak and potholed roads challenge even the best-engineered suspensions.
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Stretching, he felt the creak of old age in his knees.
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As funding markets creak, heavily indebted companies are feeling the heat.
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It opens smoothly, doesn't creak, and and feels pretty good overall.
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Only then did the door to enlightenment begin to slowly creak open.
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The trees that are standing creak as the wind pushes them around.
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The creak of the floor, the open and close of a door.
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After calling Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) to relay this info, she hears a creak.
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ISIS Crude reality: The well-oiled ISIS war machine's starting to creak, y'all.
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To Peter, every creak sounded like a footstep, every groan a human voice.
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Every hiss and creak on the album has probably been weighed and considered.
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Taylor is attuned to the creak of every board on this pirate ship.
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Mobile pages constantly creak under the weight of complex visual elements and ad networks.
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Its windows hang by their hinges, its swinging doors creak loudly in the breeze.
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Once the digger was turned off I could hear the ice creak and sigh.
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After the creak she can hear the silence in the rest of the house.
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"But I sometimes enjoy that the floor is going to creak," Mr. Cerveris said.
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Price$200LikeIt feels sturdy, the display is gorgeous, it's cheap, and there's no creak!
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Horrible metallic noises creak and sway, drawn inevitably forward by the album's sweeping momentum.
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" The "Creak-less Slippers" are designed for "people who own homes with very creaky floorboards.
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When public finances start to creak, capital spending is often the first thing to go.
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The creak of stress as he shifted his weight from leaning forward to sitting back.
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A parliamentary institution whose origins stretch back to the 18th century is starting to creak.
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The wobbly wooden planks creak as the actors perform, moving from makeshift stage to stage.
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Its windshield wipers flap arrhythmically, and its doors creak and groan when we open them.
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What the ruling will do is make Britain's constitutional tensions creak and groan like never before.
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The creak of the wooden pews and the smell of hymnals summoned a rush of memory.
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You can hear the creak as both characters and subplots get jacked up out of proportion.
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Between abandoned brick factories, faded clapboard houses with tar-paper-covered roofs creak in the wind.
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The orbital economy is heating up and the infrastructure to support it is starting to creak.
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The floors creak at the poem's midsection (a volta?), and we turn to the outside world.
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Creak said new leaders would balance ties between China and Vietnam and maintain a focus on growth.
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Warped wooden floorboards creak under my feet, and exposed pipes and electrical wiring line the unfinished hallway.
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Many more: I genuinely hope that the Browns' "bandwagon" gets so full that it starts to creak.
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Zak and a friend noticed the door to the chair's room slowly creak open all by itself.
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Chains and trucks and big digger-like gadgets creak and groan, clanking bells tolling for the dead.
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The floorboards creak, the lights flicker, something runs past the frame... (pause to turn to page two).
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Some of its plot contrivances creak a bit, especially in the final collision of Charlotte's segregated worlds.
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The creak of the pulley was all you could hear, and water, drip-dripping inside the earth.
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Uniformed security people were on patrol, opening and shutting doors and making the floors creak at night.
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The move could cause the door to outright censorship – which is already ajar – to creak open even further.
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Aluminum foil rustles, stoves click, fish scales creak, and salt is softly sprinkled (eat your heart out, Salt bae!).
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He's had sprained and twisted toes, knees and ankles, and his back can creak like an old wooden door.
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In spite of the charm and discipline of the stars, the jokes misfire and the scenes creak and stumble.
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When you're good, young, and have a ton of cap space, doors that were once closed start to creak open.
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He woke up at the slightest sound, convinced every creak of the storm was someone walking around inside the cottage.
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I'm the kind of person who, upon hearing the floorboards creak, assume it's a ghost stopping by to say hello.
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"It doesn't flatter me because it is related to my age," Mutafova said with a typical creak in her voice.
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"The Aeronauts" is fascinated by the ominous silence of the sky, the creak-crack of frozen ropes scuffing against silk.
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Its comfort was shockingly good, with its deep D-shaped cups, luxuriously soft pads, and strikingly simple and creak-free design.
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As a new homeowner of a nice old home, though, I get CREAK and like it; old wood has a personality.
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Wooden floorboards creak and groan, and the owners have preserved the tin ceilings from the building's decades as a hardware store.
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There's this nice little house I like to land in—just up and over a crest, just out of the way—and I was quietly going about my business and searching the place for ammo when I heard a creak, and then another creak, and then the soft rustle of footsteps, and now I was on my guard.
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They whizz and creak back and forth, and when the motions are complete, and Elodie collapses, they retreat back to their boxes.
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It's plenty sturdy, with tactile buttons, a creak-free frame, and an internal nanocoating that can save the phone from accidental spills.
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When the old lovers reunite at the end of Crazy Rich Asians, you can hear the creak of a door being opened.
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Noises came—footsteps, the creak of a board, voices—maybe from the other side of the door, maybe from the other apartments.
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Despite the occasional creak, the play's wit and complex characters, as well as a couple of terrific 219s gowns, are a treat.
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Despite the occasional creak, the play's wit and complex characters, as well as a couple of terrific 1920s gowns, are a treat.
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Samsung's foldable doesn't creak, likely has better cameras, has a bigger battery and wireless charging, a faster processor, and a glass screen.
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External sounds and sights bleed into this exhibition, which also resonates with the whir and creak and tinkle of sculptures in motion.
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With the inclusion of plastic bits that simulate a metal look, but creak, the HM100s complete the full set of faux ornamentation sins.
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You know that odd little creak or strange whine is new, but you don't have a clue what it's trying to tell you.
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You can hear it creak when we take off or turn, and the upholstery and décor look like something out of the 1970s.
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The gentle padding of bare feet on carpet, the ominous creak of a floorboard as the threadbare rug gives way to dark wood.
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Not all the surfaces felt distinctive, but with wood I really felt the "creak," and with snow I really felt that distinctive powder crunch.
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It is the creakiest creak to have ever creaked, so drawn-out and borderline polyphonic that it could be mapped on a musical staff.
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We know, it's hard to switch off that clawing instinct to just grab the cheapest mattress that doesn't audibly creak when you touch it.
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Every laptop I'd handled prior to that day had weak points, areas where the casing or keyboard would flex or creak or give way.
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The kids tried their best but it seemed as if every time they exhaled a foggy breath, the structure let out a loud creak.
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For hours into the night, they gingerly removed rubble and held their breath every time they heard a groan or a creak of the slabs.
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The mother with the double stroller, since the 10 minutes the elevator takes to creak to the sidewalk will give thousands of commuters a break.
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In the end, this movie does a fantastic job of making a dreary scene all the more unhinged with the occasional creak and the sporadic death.
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In all my testing with both models of 220X cans, I've never come close to even hearing a creak from them, let alone finding a crack.
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In the crumbling Victorian house of The Babadook (2014), every floorboard creak could very well indicate the presence of a looming, skinny, top hat-wearing monster.
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Already relations between the two countries had been improving with the US allowing closer cooperation in telecommunications as the door to trade begun to creak open.
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The floorboards still creak; the windows of the office, which is located up a flight of stairs, look down from on high at the trees below.
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Dom had been lying there for about twenty minutes, thinking of all the things he'd never see or smell again, when he heard the floor creak.
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Perhaps it&aposs that you need to devote yourself wholly to one area — that while one door flies wide open, others slowly creak to a close.
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And Resident Evil 7 focuses on and amplifies these smallest of noises—the creak of the floorboards, the intake of breath—to create a horrific, cumulative effect.
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Puppy had just reached the exit when he heard the creak of an old floorboard, saw a shadow engulf his own, and felt Willie's weight behind him.
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I waited until I heard her close the outside door of the bathroom and creak up the stairs before I went and looked through her medicine cabinet.
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It's the creak in the floorboards, the scratching of a window, but when fingers finally appear from behind a frame, the attack comes in-your-face fast.
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The only sounds on the quiet block are chickens clucking, birds chirping, and the rhythmic creak of springs from a trampoline on which a neighbor kid is bouncing.
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Simon Creak, a Laos expert at the University of Melbourne, said there were mixed signals about the top spot, but Bounnhang's military background could give him the upper hand.
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Try not to sob at the sheer dreadful forward march of life, life stomping and moving ever forward, each day one creak on the wheel closer to the abyss.
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Once the mood is set with an extended intro, things subtly pick up steam with the introduction of a distantly reverberating industrial creak alongside punchy, greyscale dub techno stabs.
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But the mood is undercut by its juxtaposition with Nassar's stark prison hallway march, with its sonic flourishes forming a macabre musical interlude: cuffs jangle, doors creak and thud.
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The song was conjured from memories of the lobby-less Robert Taylor buildings, where the sounds from basement boilers would moan and creak when you stepped inside at night.
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The video was shot by director Paul Thomas Anderson in one long, continuous tracking shot, capturing every guitar's creak and each woman's footsteps and letting the band's personality shine through.
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The first time with the Walker is horrible, though—take the dual-screen operating system into an enclosed space, and the whole thing begins to creak, crack, and fall apart.
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You can feel this most keenly in two parts of the music business that seem to creak slowest with change: the legacy print British music press and some major labels.
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The synthesizers play like jagged sheets of metal, slicing and disrupting their guitar riffs, and the riffs themselves clank and creak, like large, rusty industrial machines casting spooky, distorted shadows.
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There have been so dang many of them, and the format is so limiting — you can slam doors, make staircases creak, have the kitchen knives come alive — and then what?
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A 32-year-old society spinster in one of Massachusetts' wealthiest families, she moves resolutely through the gloomy Borden household, every creak and groan contributing to its coffin-like atmosphere.
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Working with an uneven cast and an undercooked story, Mr. O'Malley hits the horror beats just fine (slam, creak, squeak) without putting a sinister spin on the assorted strange doings.
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Careening camera angles and squeak-creak-crackle sound effects don't substitute for actual tension, and high-end cinematography (by Yves Bélanger, who gave "Brooklyn" its swanky sheen) doesn't replace imagination.
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The hallway seems to sway as wind, whipped up off the rocky coast, swirls around the structure, making the lightbulbs swing and the steel wires — keeping the whole thing upright — creak.
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At this point Capaldi chipped in with one more hint: "I think that you should be very careful when you hear a creak when you step on a floorboard," he said.
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As soon as you hit your mid-216s you start to ache and creak and you can't help but wonder if you, yes you, are getting a bit old in the tooth.
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"Perhaps the system tolerates corruption because the street smart politician is better at making the wheels of the bureaucracy creak, however slowly, in favor of his constituents," he said in a 2014 speech.
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After nearly an hour's delay due to technical problems, supporters had to settle for watching it scrape, creak, and rattle along a makeshift track in the middle of the reception hall on campus.
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The scene trains you in The Invisible Man's particular brand of terror: every creak or rustle becomes a cause for panic, every lingering shot into a seemingly still room reason to tense up.
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They all start the same way: a few minor chords from a pipe organ, maybe a quick plug for Bromo-Seltzer or some other apothecary's helper no longer in circulation — and then the creak.
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Google Maps' picture-in-picture navigation mode was a particular struggle, but even quickly switching between apps occasionally saw the handset's processor creak under the pressure (although the usual disclaimers about pre-release software apply).
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You are alone, here, out here, just the occasional crack and creak of tall pine trees, the fresh chill on your cheeks, a slight icy dampness seeping into the back of your jeans, around by the calves.
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The creak in your left knee is like the voice of an old friend; you can never entirely forget the specter of a dormant inflammation in your hip, kept at bay only with meticulous stretching and icing.
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After Candace Payne's video of herself experiencing pure joy as she tried on a Chewbacca mask began to go viral, you could practically hear the creak of machinery as brands tried to figure out how to capitalize.
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Outside, the paths are softened and hushed with ashy soil; inside, any boards that don't creak have been daubed with paint, and the Abbotts must pick their way from one to the next, as if on stepping stones.
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To be sure, the theater has a rustic charm, and loyal patrons will be loath to part with the wooden floorboards that creak, the stadium seats that flip, the let's-put-on-a-show vibe of summer camp.
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The metallic creak of the big iron door startled them, and by the looks on their faces they were surprised to see Ric, this short and strong Filipino, pulling open the heavy gate, his slippers barely gripping the pavement.
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You can very slowly creak around a charity shop or go and see some nice plants at Chelsea Flower Show during the off-peak hours of the day, but 9AM is for people who pay their bus fare, sorry.
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We soon sense that, Carrie-like, Thelma is causing involuntary damage to the surrounding world; as she and Anja hold hands, in a concert hall, and venture a caress, the vast acoustic fixture overhead begins to creak and sway.
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The sound design has the impressive effect of driving you slowly up the wall — you hear every creak in the floorboard, every fart and every tinkle, and it's punctuated at regular intervals with the oppressive blare of a foghorn.
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Its target customers are typically software startups that are scaling international sales to the point where their internal business systems are starting to creak — so before they've had a chance to staff up to support more robust processes of their own.
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Henry Darger's trauma-filled watercolor At Sunbeam Creak/At Wickey Lansinia, for example, was found by Darger's landlord shortly before the artist's death, amongst more than 15,000 pages of text and hundreds of drawings in the artist's dingy Chicago apartment.
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And yes, I did use to cut the volume on the chorus of the latter and watch an entire room creak out a "WOOO-AAAHHHH," at the top of their gleeful, stupid, terrible voices—a room briefly united in drunken desperation.
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Phys Ed If your knees creak and pop, the noises could be an indicator of early arthritis, even if the joint does not hurt, according to one of the first long-term studies of the association between noisy knees and joint disease.
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And sports that seem quiet can still demand a focus on subtle sounds and signals, like the whoosh of a breeze through branches alerting golfers and runners to wind speed or a creak in a joint that could warn of early injury.
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It was 3 in the morning and I hadn't slept all night, listening to the crickets and the sound of my husband's snoring and trying to find a spot on the Murphy bed in my parents' guest room that wouldn't creak with every move I made.
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By the end, when the gods ascend into Valhalla, it felt like the actors were leaving behind all the creaking machinery and harnesses, walking out of our hall filled with coughing viewers and creaking girders, and into their hall whose heavenly floors presumably don't creak underfoot.
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A gull lands on a shaggy-weeded rock, fluffs itself, and settles into a crouch, bracing against a fierce wind rushing across the water, while, up on the cliff, lichen-covered trees—spruce and fir and birch—sigh and creak like old men on a damp morning.
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Now Mr. de la Torre is ready for another project, and Mr. Haberman, a senior account director at the New York design company ESI, is hankering after some kind of antique home "where the floorboards creak a little bit and there's wear marks on the windowsill," he said.
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If occasionally the story strains beneath this undertaking — if we hear the squeaky creak of a plot twist or if a character is too conveniently introduced — we hardly mind, for our trusty narrator is as powerful and persuasive and delightfully clever as the narrator in a Victorian novel.
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Their catamaran's rigging and hulls groan and creak with the strain of the vast wing sail, which is about as big as a 737 aircraft's, as their coach puts the crew of five through a "gut buster", a series of short maneuvers requiring frequent adjustments, total concentration and intense exertion.
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But even if I planned meticulously, abiding all my living fears, my bones won't go with me when I die, and I won't ever know if the machinery lowering me into my grave will creak and break, or if a sudden breeze will blow my dust onto those who survive me.
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You may sometimes hear a creak when its engines switch gears, but that's only a sign that it this vast machine is speeding ever faster towards the confluence of White Walkers, dragons, religious zealots, bloodthirsty armadas, and a winter more horrific than any climate change, all converging on the Iron Throne.
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But if my packed theater was anything to go by, I wasn't the only one who was surprised at how much this Ghostbusters relishes the thrill of letting an open door creak open s-l-o-w-l-y, otherworldly light pulsing with a sinister and inviting glow just behind it.
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The revelation that Jeremy is "one of the world's leading experts on surveillance" sits awkwardly with his inability to fact-check threatening strangers' stories, and as the plot begins to creak through various twists and turns, stage-managed either by the author or his unreliable narrator, Jeremy can sound more like a nervous novelist than a traumatized professor.
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When classmates would talk about another girl being hot, I didn't even look up because she didn't register on my spectrum, but I became aroused when classmates would talk about the fat girl behind her back, pointing out all of the delicious ways in which she spilled out of her clothes or how her seat would creak as she sat down.
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"I don't care who you are, there's a fantastic chance you know the paralyzing fear that shoots up your spine when you're watching a smidgen of erotica and you think you hear the door open, a creak from the stairway or even a random footstep," wrote Mike Wehner, an editor at the tech-culture site Daily Dot who took the V.R. porn plunge.
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" Later, when the threesome venture out of the caravan to witness an iceberg's arrival, they observe "all those peaked figures of ice, like all of their ancestors have been caught by the elements on the long walk home, their souls captured by ice and snow, and below them the North Sea cracks and groans as ice floes creak and collide.
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Filmmaker Mark Lebon's snapshot into the intimacy of his home life perfectly fits "Marilyn," a song that uses the rasp of Mica Levi's vocal to sound exactly like the feeling you get when you creak open your eyes on a sunny morning and have fuck-all else to do besides hang out with people you love and not get sunstroke in the process.
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Every step along the path lands heavy to the insistent creak of a wagon wheel, and Reichardt turns the contrast between the deliberate crawl west and the threat of dwindling food and water into a source of agonizing tension; the film's biggest set piece is a scene in which the group lowers a wagon down a rocky hill, a rope snap away from certain oblivion.
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But that has only made me more attuned to the tucked-away part of my brain ruled more by instinct than by logic — the part that lights up at the creak of a footstep from an unoccupied room, the stranger on the train who looks exactly like your mother and just about anything that happens in the nebulous place where your peripheral vision ends and the unknown begins.
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"War and Peace": Eight times: different translations; illuminations different each time, often tiny, details of acute physical observation — the faint creak of Helene Kuragin's corset in the inadvertent betrothal scene; the military surgeon at Borodino wiping blood from his finger before lighting a cigar; the knowing look in the old grey she-wolf's eyes; the abandoned Natasha's sudden craving for chicken (a wiser choice than Anatole); Pierre in the beautiful epilogue failing to shop adequately for his wife.
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") However, I now think a few of the corners creak a tad too much, especially the SE and NE. FLASH MOB (which surprisingly has not yet been in The Times), ELIHU YALE (with his full name), I LOST IT, the scrabbly LL COOL J, NEO-DADA, STREAKING, THE HULK, BUM A RIDE and the "Hey-I've-seen-that-thing-before-but-couldn't-tell-you-what-it's-called" BALDRIC still strike me as interesting long entries, but the remaining seem too "so what?
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