squeaker

How to use squeaker in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for squeaker.

Home Featured words Jump to examples

Editorial note

Hillary Clinton did not win in a squeaker over Sanders; she crushed him.

Examples5

Definitions2

Parts of speech1

Quick take

any artifact that makes a squeaking sound when used; "those sneakers are squeakers"; "which hinge is the squeaker?"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of squeaker gathered in one view.

noun

any artifact that makes a squeaking sound when used; "those sneakers are squeakers"; "which hinge is the squeaker?"

noun

something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for squeaker.

noun

any artifact that makes a squeaking sound when used; "those sneakers are squeakers"; "which hinge is the squeaker?"

noun

something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin

Example sentences

Hillary Clinton did not win in a squeaker over Sanders; she crushed him.

This was such a squeaker of an election, that it seems that any one of the multitude of factors changes, and Hillary wins.

He’d broken the numbers down demographically and come up with a much less encouraging outcome for Clinton: a two-point squeaker in Indiana, and a seventeen-point drubbing in North Carolina.

There's a strong historically tendency towards bundling.> Maybe the President getting re-elected pretty solidly ...Electorally, yes, but it's a squeaker by popular vote.

This should have been an easy slam dunk for the Democrats to win, but it's turned out to be a squeaker!If the democrats ride the status quo for the next four years and both parties were to run the same candidates again, I suspect Biden would lose.