creak

I move well, my balance is fine, but I’m always tight, always creaking.

But, as the population lives longer and with more health needs, and with women also now expected to work for longer, the state's reliance on families to protect an already creaking social care system increases.

The only sound is rustling pages and creaking chairs.

Aside from the spraying and trickling water, employee Michael Volpone said he has also heard faint creaking.

It meant that the government could not borrow more than 0.35% of Germany's gross economic output, while the country's rail and bridge infrastructure creaked from years of underinvestment and ministers tried to boost military spending.