On a typical day, her habits never varying, Miss Dove oils her creaking gate and walks to the schoolhouse, briefly stopping to address her neighbors along the way.

Lucenzo plunged the key into the lock and let the creaking gate swing open.

He had a small dog with him, a mongrel of some kind, and he talked to it as he came in a curious, hoarse voice like a creaking gate!

The wizard and the hobbit pushed open the heavy creaking gate and went down a wide track towards the house.

The creaking gate cut through his thoughts and he rose, drawing his dagger.

He's what is known as a creaking gate.

I parked out front and let myself in through a creaking gate.

Damask listened, sorting out the sounds which made up the silence of the late summer night, the small muted sound of the water under the bridge, a bird's cry, a dog barking at the other end of the village, and nearer at hand the sound of a creaking gate.