Shorn of one leg, slow sprawled along on three: He vaults no more with vigorous hops on high, But mourns in hoarsest croaks his destiny.
The raven croaksforlorn on naked spray: 'And, hark!
You must know that the true frog is a weather-prophet: when it is going to rain he knows it, comes out of the water and croaks his prophecy; when dry weather is coming he goes back to the water.
And because, when the first claps of thunder are heard, it is the summer which announces its coming, so the frog that croaks and the frog that sings served specially to announce the summer.
Shorn of one leg, slow sprawl'd along on three; He vaults no more with vigorous hops on high, But mourns in hoarsest croaks his destiny.
Shorn of one leg, slow sprawl'd along on three: He vaults no more with vigorous hops on high, But mourns in hoarsest croaks his destiny.
But Marat will not drown: he speaks and croaks explanation; croaks with such reasonableness, air of sincerity, that repentant pity smothers anger, and the shrieks subside or even become applauses.
The Three Hundred have summoned and will again summon Marat: but always he croaks forth answer sufficient; always he will defy them, or elude them; and endure no gag.
Now the bull-frog croaks in the marsh, and a deep booming tells of a bittern passing by.
The raven has now fixed his great talons on her shoulder, and chuckles and croaks in her ear as she pursues her occupation.
There'll be so many croaks about us if we choose one of these names that we'll be crushed with ridicule.
In fact Queen's girls came in for a good many croaksand began to wait fearfully for what was to come next.
The girls finally decided, after many ludicrous mistakes, that the jokes were on the sophomores and the croaks were on the freshmen.
From our young fields of life we come, elate: There croaks a bird; what croaks he?
Upon this, a mile away, stood an army of flamingoes, whose croaks and gabblings filled the still air.
Into the harbour the fisher boats ride, But two went out with the ebbing tide, Without sail, without oar, full fast and free, And the raven croaks in the rowan tree.
With the sea-drenched locks and the pulseless breast And the close-shut lips which thine have pressed And the wide sad eyes that heed not thee, While the raven croaks in the rowan tree.
Then whilst his mate is sitting he keeps careful watch over her and utters savage croaksif any footstep approaches.
Cypress gloomed in forbidding shadow above the stagnant water; the swamp itself was rife with horrible quacks and croaks and off somewhere the distant bellow of an alligator.
Because when a person is about to die, the raven croaksover the house.
The raven croaks over the house when one of the family is about to die.
Stroke the back of the frog gently and he croaks responsively, as if the titillation called back pleasant memories of caresses received in some lover's tussock-bower.
A perfect automaton, it moves when touched, it croaks when stroked, it answers to a multitude of external irritations, but when untouched and left to itself it is as a lifeless clod until the sun dries it up and the winds blow it away.
Dyke Side The frog croaks loud, and maidens dare not pass But fear the noisome toad and shun the grass; And on the sunny banks they dare not go Where hissing snakes run to the flood below.
While the party of friends are carousing in the house of death, he too, scorning funeral-baked meats, croaks hoarse hymns and dismal dirges as he is devouring the pet-lamb of the little grandchild of the deceased.
Often does he flap his wings against door and window of hut, when the wretch within is in extremity, or, sitting on the heather-roof, croaks horror into the dying dream.
The hoarse frog croaks and the stark owl hoots Of a mystery moored in the cypress roots.
Croaks the big bullfrog of Reelfoot Lake From his hiding-place in the draggled brake.
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan, Under my battlements.
That croaks the fatal enterance of Duncan Under my battlements.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "croaks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
