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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
squeak .
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Examples
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But then, my brain squeaked out, Miss Davenport probably uses logic all the time.
ARRRR! tragic_elegance 2007
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She was sitting in a rocking chair which "squeaked" -- her smartly shod foot resting on a pale blue rose -- the pale blue rose being in the carpet.
The Visioning Susan Glaspell 1915
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Blears, 2'11 ", squeaked," While my first love is obviously politics, not many people know that my second is amateur dramatics.
Blears Quits Cabinet Dungeekin 2009
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Blears, 2'11 ", squeaked," While my first love is obviously politics, not many people know that my second is amateur dramatics.
Archive 2009-06-01 Dungeekin 2009
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However, even if you choose to describe it as 'squeaked', the SNP did win the 2007 Scottish election and Alex Salmond was elected First Minister.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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"Ya'as, yer'd better make er hurry," squeaked "Little Jim," from his perch in the window, "fer Mandy Calline's spectin 'her beau ter-night."
Southern Lights and Shadows William Dean Howells 1878
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Whereupon the ambitious violinist had begged permission of its owner to use an empty corncrib at the foot of the "long orchard," as a music-room, and there "squeaked" as long and as loud as she pleased.
Dorothy's Travels Evelyn Raymond 1876
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Tsongas just kind of squeaked through the primary since the vote was so split up. by: you @ soon
Swing State Project 2010
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"I just come over really hard at the end and kind of squeaked through," Bell said.
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He has absolutely no voice left (although I don't think voice was really ever the selling point for any of his songs) and just kind of squeaked through "Get Down Tonight."
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