croak - use in sentences

Object

  • frog: The boat - grounded in the shallows collects water-plants croaking frogs pale fish.
  • voice: It belongs to Godwin the smith, " said the demon, with a hissing croaking voice.
  • raven: Ware that wicked fruit of knowledge, ' croaked the raven of the Churches.
  • sound: Added to the scenario is a Chinese Pond-Heron taking off with a croaking sound from the marsh.
  • call: It lives in southern Mexico and Central and South America and can actually identify which frogs are good to eat by their croaking calls!
  • noise: The imp responded to this affection by making a soft croaking noise.

Converse of object

  • make: Whilst male frogs make a quiet, low-pitched call during the breeding season, toads make a louder, higher croak.
  • have: But it wasn't a joke that he had a high croak And walked with a bit of a mince.
  • give: The Frogman felt he had been insulted, so he gave a loud croak of indignation and turned away.
  • crow: When sheep are restless and crows croak more than usual, wet weather is probable.

Adjective modifier

  • hoarse: Worse still when they tried to bark at us nothing happened except for a tiny hoarse croak.
  • harsh: Call The Cormorant is mostly silent, but occasionally makes a harsh croak.
  • deep: A distant motorbike sounds like the deep croak of the frogs.

Modifying Another Word

  • loudly: Nothing stirred over the vast expanse save a pair of ravens, which croaked loudly from a tor behind us.
  • badly: SMITH ventures a few badly croaked and abysmal renditions of the ballads which groaned through every student bedsit in the seventies.

Noun used with modifier

  • frog: Frogs croak from the pond and ditches, where they breed alongside toads.

Preposition: of

  • frog: On the beach, Sawyer struggles to sleep due to the annoying croak of a tree frog.
  • raven: Once or twice I heard the less- musical croaking of a raven - there are only a few on the island.

Preposition: like

  • frog: Croaking like a glutinous frog that she was far too unwell to do her shopping.
  • raven: I would croak like a raven; I would bode, I would bode.

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