Its voice consists of a deep, coarse croaking, often repeated every few seconds.

The silence-nothing croaking or barking after he came back downstream.

Not the defiant croaking of Nog as the weapons were taken off safety.

The frogs, who all came up near the river, went straight into it with a plop-plop and a loud croaking.

Mildred tried to shriek, but it only came out as a frenzied croaking.

He heard the orotund and sepulchral croaking of the taverner.

He swore at me in a bestial croaking.

Even the metallic croaking of the Sierra-Bravo birds had ceased.

"Dear gods," he groaned, his voice a harsh croaking.

The call is a loud croaking.

Monkeys chattered somewhere around, and big frogs in the washing-pool set up their usual tremendous croaking.

Except for the occasional hoot of an owl and the intermittent croaking of frogs, there was no sound.

Then from out of the silence, imminent and threatening, there came once more that low, throaty croaking, far louder and closer than before.

The schooner was a dark shape against the stars, and the air was alive with the high-pitched, rapid croaking of tree frogs.

From the swale below us came the peaceful croaking of happy, springtime frogs and a little breeze was rustling the trees.

His voice was a husky croaking, the words clear Galach with an obvious Tandaloor accent.

"Every one belongs to every ..." Her voice suddenly died into an almost inaudible breathless croaking.

It was the discordant croaking of frogs, eight feet in length, which lived and throve in this swamp.

Various croaking, hissing and mewing notes.

Here, on the fringe of woods, he could hear the faint croaking of distant frogs; for he was closer to the lake.

It was calm and quiet, broken only by the hysterical croaking of the ravens as they circled the Tower of Art.

Amphibian Numbers Dip If you think you're hearing less croaking of frogs these days, you're not alone.

It throbbed with the metallic chir of cicadas and the morbid croaking of tree-frogs.

While he was wondering whether he should knock and demand shelter for the night, he heard a great croaking of frogs in a ditch behind the house.

Nights are loud with the croaking of frogs, the hooting of owls and occasionally, wolves howling from distant hilltops.

She croaked the words, still only half able to believe them.

On the other hand, if they croak first, their money goes to you.

Back in a day or two!' the old woman croaked.

He heard a voice croak out his name and turned quickly.

Only, I could have croaked the guy easy, from the door.

I'm likely to croak of old age before he shows up again where I am.

Not even if it means croaking me along with you.

"Can you not stop your croaking even for a day?"

Bill croaked out the name of the man who was about to murder him.

"You want them two new guys that are working in the office croaked, too?"

No telling why or how they'd croaked, but that was too close.

They're just waiting for him to croak and leave it all to their college.

My voice croaked as if I'd been asleep for a while.

After a moment he managed to croak out his name.

A dry, croaking sound came from deep inside of him.

I do not know why Miller should have croaked out such a name.

"One time a guy almost croaked on me in bed," she was saying.

Only come to find out it's too hot down here, they'd probably croak in the sun.

Wonder how popular they will be once they've croaked it.

I croaked, having summoned enough of myself together to do so.

He croaked the word, then cleared his voice and tried again.

She was croaking, as though she'd spent the morning crying.

The frogs thought that night was coming and began to croak.

"What in hell is that thing he was croaked with?"

And then a sort of croaking that might have been laughter.

She tried to say something, but her voice was just a croak.

The words came out in a croak the first time.

The word was a croak, not my voice at all.

Her voice came out as nothing more than a croak.

When he tried to speak his voice came as a croak.

He started to speak, but the words came out in a croak.

But the words came out in a series of short croaks.

I open my mouth and a small croak comes out.

At the sound of his croak, her eyes went wide.

It has been very difficult to open my mouth and croak.

At any moment, Croak might turn on the lights again.

He was surprised to hear his voice coming out as a sort of croak.

Then I tried to speak, but all that came out was a croak.

When she replied, her voice came out almost as a croak.

She called out for him to stop, but only a croak came from her throat.

He had put the croak on more than one victim, in his time.

His question came out little more than a harsh croak.

Somehow, I found my voice first, though it was more like a croak.

Now he tried to shout, but only a croak came out.

He tried to scream but the sound came out as a low croak.

The lips moved again and this time there was a croak.

The Croaks were the ones you had to be careful of.

To his surprise, the word came out as a dry croak.

There was a pleased croak as the light went off.

The words came out a muted croak, but he seemed not to hear.