creak (along)

as in to creep
to move slowly the line at the registry of motor vehicles was just creaking along

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Verb
  • The drama creeps in gradually, like a gray poison slowly infecting the air.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Mortgage rates have crept back over 7% to start the new year in a potentially troublesome development for the housing market that has struggled under the weight of higher interest rates for two years that have priced people out of the market and slowed sales to 20-year lows.
    Austin Denean, Baltimore Sun, 17 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The video shows a man trying to drag Zakariya’s lifeless body before he too is shot.
    Zeena Saifi, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The deputies dragged Payne across the floor, according to the complaint.
    Julia Marnin, Sacramento Bee, 24 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Emma Corrin — who plays Anna Harding, best friend to Lily-Rose Depp’s Ellen Hutter — had to film a scene covered in rats that crawled on their bare chest.
    Laura Bradley, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The investigators will lay out a grid at the scene, typically with string, and literally crawl around on their hands and knees in search of footprints or other clues.
    Adiel Kaplan, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • As he’s been awaiting trial in Charlotte since his arrest in 2012 on a first-degree murder charge, Perkins has been shuffled between the Mecklenburg County jail, Broughton Hospital, Central Prison, and Central Regional Hospital dozens of times.
    Kallie Cox, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Players can shuffle and rearrange the board of words to help them with guessing the connections.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • When Ampadu and Ilia Gruev limped off within three days of each other, he was left staring down the engine-room barrel.
    Beren Cross, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Again, he was shown limping off to the sideline but appeared to be able to continue.
    James Brizuela, Newsweek, 19 Jan. 2025
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“Creak (along).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/creak%20%28along%29. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.

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