How To Use Crack In A Sentence

A couple of times her footholds cracked and she plunged a few heart-stopping feet, but luckily she grabbed another hold.
Hurrah!" came from the right, and the cheer was taken up from the left, while _crack, crack, crack_, rifles were being brought well into play. Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer
The overseer, a great strong man, cracking his "blacksnake" from time to time, to enforce authority, excited our strong indignation. 'Three Score Years and Ten' Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other Parts of the West
There's nothing you can do to change the little ones' minds about the gewgaws and gimcracks they expect to find beneath the tree - or to stop your in-laws' annual onslaught, for that matter.
They are hired to crack a safe, photograph the contents of a locked briefcase inside, and return it to the owner without him knowing.

The two leads give crackerjack performances, their timing, dynamism and interaction almost flawless.
Impacts may create undetectable cracks that, because of the continuous loads, could result in structural damage.
The town hall lost two bollards and a litter bin, railings, and a large stone pedestal has been cracked.
What's more, the mountain was haloed by phosphorescent blue bands of some sort of energy crackling all around it.
Meanwhile, all sorts of things that at one time or another were considered tests for artificial intelligence — playing chess, doing integrals, doing autonomous control — have been cracked in algorithmic ways. Wolfram Blog : Stephen Wolfram on the Quest for Computable Knowledge
What Montgomery conceived was a one-two punch, a British blow followed by an American crack.
Cracked or scaly skin is unable to serve as an effective barrier against disease.
The ayatollah broke with Iran's clerical leadership and became a vehement critic, denouncing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and calling the postelection crackdown the work of a dictatorship. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
And if there are residual cracks in Adele's pipes, you can't hear them: the word "hometown" easily wraps itself around the venue's lofting ironwork. Adele – review
There are chocks of assorted age and make, battered into shapeless bashies, as well as many fine #1 Friends, sunk and overcammed deep into fingercracks which refuse to give up their dead.
But you remind me of the crackhead in the pharmacy.
If he thinks that people are being too happy, he's sure to crack the whip.
Across the room, a pane of glass in the window cracked with a sharp pop.
The insects are forming thick clouds near the ground, and they carpet the inside of the car when the doors are cracked open.
Drop dead gorgeous pictures, a text that's zippy and slick, fun voices, and lots of words like "crick", "crack", and "creak". Archive 2006-04-01
Crack a handful of whole new season's walnuts, remove the kernels from the shells and halve and quarter them.
But memories of prior political awakenings that ended disastrously were revived when the Polish military cracked down in 1981.
The SPCA has been calling for the complete ban of fireworks and crackers for some time now.
The preliminary research showed that the material used of the piston rod is unqualified , casting aliquation and much S element result in cracking on the edge of the casting aliquation.
I grasped his hands in mine, so tightly they almost cracked under the pressure.
These changes serve as the background for the spread of crack cocaine in Germany as well.
Anabel laughed as she put the roasted marshmallows on some graham crackers.
Then trumpeters played a fanfare, fireworks boomed and crackled across the sky and children from schools on either side of the river waved flags and exchanged huge greetings cards to commemorate new links between their communities.
Offered second billing on the Whig Party ticket in 1848, Daniel Webster cracked, "I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.
Schoolchildren could be frisked for weapons against their will as teachers are recruited into the crackdown on youth knife culture.
The bandages on his face peeled off, and the bones suddenly cracked back into alignment, and his nose cricked into place.
Bouchons were originally wine bars where the local silk workers or passing stagecoach drivers could fill up on a simple, hearty cuisine that was based on fresh local products -- mostly pig in the form of andouillette, fried crackling, tripes, petit salé -- and lots of the local wine among like-minded souls, enjoying their brief moment of freedom amid laughter and loud, boisterous behavior. Jamie Schler: A Side Trip to Lyons: Le Bouchon
The hyena exploits carcasses more fully than either cat because of its bone-cracking abilities.
He heard the sharp crack of a twig.
It destroyed his tenor voice and his familiar cracked, husky tones took over. Times, Sunday Times
His boots creaked at every step, his starched uniform crackled and a sourish smell of sweat and leather became noticeable. Autumn
I then angled the bandsaw table over so I could run resawing passes parallel to the worst of the cracking, and fired it through for a number of passes. Stu's Shed
No one but Mark heard it, but Mark was pretty sure he had just received a slightly cracked rib.
I started having cracke noises in my buenos aires landline when I added DSL. A Dying Landline Business Sounds a Lot Like Static
You see this water carefully contained on my hand? It symbolizes Love. As long as you keep your hand curly open and allow it to remain there, it will always be there. However, if you attempt to close your fingers around it and try to possess it, it will spill through the first cracks it finds. This is the greatest mistake that people do when they meet love. They try to posses it, they demand, they expect and just like the water spilling out of your hand, love will retrieve from you.
Look at a stone cutter hitting at the rock. Nothing happens at first, but after many strikes, the rocks eventually cracks. In life, don't doubt. Keep at it and it will happen. RVM
He is a mule, a dead gasteropod, without vim or stamina, not worth a cracked kreutzer. Ulysses
Contemporary drawings show that the cookhouse was badly cracked as was the barracks and one of the caponiers had completely detached itself.
He said tougher standards were needed to crack down on thugs and drunken yobs.
Nick is also a professional safecracker who lives by a sworn motto: never steal from where you live.
Lipatti s performance possesses a clarity of articulation, a depth of sonority and an energy that shine through the crackly recording.
Yet he never buckled, never once cracked and instead showed a strength of character that even I, his friend for years, didn't know he possessed.
I suppose when you're out of your mind on cheap cider, homegrown weed and crack cocaine you might enjoy muck like that.
And Israel has again started to crack down on Palestinian militants.
I often start work at the crack of dawn when there is a big order to get out.
It was pitch black inside the dumpster with only a slither of light entering through the crack of the lid.
On an unseasonally nippy May Tuesday, two women, a man and a young girl wheeling a baby's buggy, set about cracking open the votes in Kinsealy.
James Joyce's view that the Irish view the British through the ‘cracked looking glass of a servant’ no longer pertains.
Generally the damage of forging die has four different damage mechanisms: worn, fatigue, transform and hot crack.
Nancy Dowd's script crackles with wit, while Newman is at his manipulative, womanising best.
The principle of proportionality - do not use a sledgehammer to crack a nut - is straight forward logic.
We were two months behind schedule, so I decided it was time to crack the whip.
In addition to marijuana, cocaine, and crack cocaine, the illicit drugs reported in the survey included hallucinogens, heroin, inhalants, and psychotropics.
She got up and went over to the fire crackling and spitting nearby.
We heard the rapid crackle of automatic gunfire.
He made it over two months from a combination of processes involving painting and cut-and-paste images, using a crackled paint effect to make it look old.
If you're interested in anything deeper than cable gimcrackery, I recommend giving it a read. David Roberts: Cleaning Some of the Fox Off of Van Jones
The hairline crack split wider as a burst of green energy shot forth through it.
The cash-strapped councils need the money to plug leaks in school roofs, shore up unstable walls, install modern heating systems, repair cracked, draughty windows and remove temporary classrooms.
Basically ice is to amphetamine powder what crack is to cocaine, very powerful.
I can't wait to get cracking on next year 's crop and see what that might bring. Times, Sunday Times
He'd have loved to have modelled undercrackers that small. The Sun
I need them to know that a Florida cracker is not something you eat, and that it may or may not be offensive to some readers. Publishing
This movement was more significant than any change in the cracks caused by the Tube line construction. Times, Sunday Times
Don Treadwell, what goes through his mind when that call crackles across the headset. The Seattle Times
And put his clothes on in the blueback cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. Lance Mannion:
So Foster's got this vaguely martyr-like songbird persona she's working, and sometimes the devious witch bit sticks out too, as on ‘Crackerjack Fool’.
Here and there a soldado pulled up, screaming, as a barbed shaft found a crack or pierced a foot or leg. Fire The Sky
The girls 'father, Giuseppe De Vito, disappeared in 2006 after the RCMP issued a warrant for his arrest on drug charges as part of what they called a sweeping crackdown on organized crime. Ottawa Sun
A crack ran down one side of the black lacquerwork. Conan The Magnificent
And then, with a shocking crack, the lightning bolt frozen in the sky crashed to the mountaintop, and the arena went entirely dark. AMERICAN GODS
Then old Tarwater's heart uprose again as the air was rent by a cyclone of profanity, from the midst of which crackled sentences like: - Dirty skunks! ... LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES
After a second's wait -- snortingly impatient on Mr. Wilder's part; he was being pressed close by the none too clean citizens of Valedolmo -- the door was opened a very small crack by a frowsy jailoress. Jerry
A top-heavy nurse in cricket pads and dangling overhead light pack struggles to aim a fire breathing generator in a duel with a whip-cracking foreman.
My sister went on to describe noises she'd been hearing, the regular old creaks and cracks that are heard in all houses and she'd also heard a clicking sound.
Mark kicked the glass and it cracked, he kicked again breaking it.
The sword stuck fast in a crack in between two of the stone blocks.
This book is also about hog-killing and smokehouses, about making lye hominy and gathering wild greens, about ramps and cushaws and leather-britches, about cracklin’ bread and corn-cob jelly, whistle pig and poke sallet, apple butter and stack cakes.’
The council has announced its intention to crack down on parking offences.
The crack of the whip was so loud; her ears were ringing, not to mention the whelp on her back.
While the father and sister were delighted with the crackle, sparkle and pleasant aroma of the bits of spicewood, as Abe tossed them upon the fire, no one could appreciate the thoughtful act of the boy so much as his mother. The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln
It seems pointlessly dense with renegade and overlapping wood slats, all cracked and sullied.
The current scandal could improve his chances-or prompt a crackdown that might dash any hope of his getting power.
At least nine people have died in bomb attacks launched by the cartels since President Barco ordered the crackdown on the cocaine traffickers.
On 11 minutes, the visitors thought that they had taken the lead but a cracking effort went inches wide of the target.
Does the idea of drinking graham cracker milk gruel make you laugh or feel ill or both?
Up to 190,000 people will be left to languish on bail for lengthy periods despite a government crackdown, according to official forecasts. Times, Sunday Times
Then I discovered a blessed pack of seaweed rice crackers I hadn't eaten at our party on Friday nite (omigod have I got some blogging to do).
His impassive, bearded face again cracks a smile. Times, Sunday Times
The crackdown followed five attacks in which industrial-strength display fireworks were used to damage phone boxes and several cars on October 12 and 13.
We have made certain that the reason of the splined spindle rapture is fatigue failure, its crack initiation lies in the minimal knuckle curvature radius surface region of the spline dedendum bottom.
Thanks to Rich and Dave for a cracking re-introduction in to the world of caving.
The good news is that Nicaragua is now cracking down on this animal harvest.
His complex philosophies are enlivened by often hilarious cracks. Times, Sunday Times
Check the spinner mount screws to see if they're loose or if cracks are radiating from the holes.
Living in this goldfish bowl of publicity would crack the strongest marriage.
To make the tabbouleh warm the cracked wheat in the microwave or in a small frypan with minimum water.
The question to be answered by England is who is likely to enjoy the cracks more: spinners or seamers? Times, Sunday Times
Instead, all the clifty defiles of the ranges were filled with the roar of flames and the crackling of burning timbers as town after town was given to the firebrand, and the homeless, helpless Cherokees frantically fleeing to the densest coverts of the wilderness, -- that powerful truculent tribe! The Frontiersmen
What it was now was the starry 1939-45 War again, and it was a very blobby and liny and crackly film you could viddy had been made by the Germans. Where's the show?
He suffered three cracked ribs in the accident.
I have a beautiful, wonderful, firecracker of a daughter.
I wonder what would happen to someone if they referred to the million man march as "crackbrained". Undefined
The answer that occurred to her was good and logical, at least by the crackbrained logic the phouka swore by. War for the Oaks
Don't put delicate china in the dishwasher - it may crack.
The move comes amid a general government crackdown on benefit fraud. Times, Sunday Times
Tapan contemplated the cracked image of his own face in that mirror for a long time.
Many boys explode firecrackers on the Fourth of July.
We follow the tracks across the cracked mudflats, out past the sunken pilings now exposed and bleached by sun, to the deepest channel turned fetid pond. Three Prayers for Rain
It crackles with energy and time is precious. Times, Sunday Times
Opposition parties and Turkey's western allies say the crackdown is targeting all critical voices. Times, Sunday Times
They instantly fall into certain companionable roles: the smartest one lends an educated perspective on a topic, the most outrageous one cracks the kind of jokes she wouldn’t dare to if a man were around, the least intellectually secure one feels safe enough to ask the most rudimentary questions. The Uses of Enchantment
The pounding roar of the first shot resounded from inside the cracked-open sphere, and the nigrescent space thudded with the rutilant explosions of needlecraft. In Other Worlds
He used a mallet to crack open a case of wine in a ritual said to bring harmony and good fortune. The Sun
She wanted to slam the door shut, to hear the satisfying crack of wood against wood, splintering and breaking.
Beside her the great fire crackles under the wooden eaves of the feasting hall. Times, Sunday Times
Taboula, a parsley, tomato, onion and burghul - or cracked wheat - salad was drenched in the most sickening oil.
In the distance, staggered lines of other pukkawoods rose, each from a crack riven into the saltpan by the advancing lightning. Asimov's Science Fiction
False-firecracker Thrower @ 11: 49: Better than your boy, bushie, who kissed the terrorist-Saudis on the mouth, while holding their oil-encrusted hands. White House: Obama monitoring terror situation closely
It provides the foundation to supervise and diagnose the cracks of rotor blade.
It was concrete crazy paving when we moved in, full of cracks and weeds. Times, Sunday Times
A brace of £60,000 races highlight a cracking card at Haydock, where Time Ahead will surely take all the beating in the bet 365 Lancashire Oaks.
She's calm and strong, and she is just not going to crack.
His proof came in the guise of soundbites that he pledged "were not edited," and the "methodicalness" came by a member of the O'Reilly crack staff going out to the Iraqi War Protest in Washington this past week to ask questions of Sean Penn, Jane Fonda, Susan Saranden and Tim Robbins. Methodical Bill O Proves There Are No Other Options To Bush Iraq Policy
He settled for a pack of cheese crackers with peanut butter inside.
Unfortunately, the PSA department was not in the right hands, and by 1967, the cracks in the system had begun to show.
Watch the camera slowly track down a dark hallway toward a shaft of light from a crack in a door.
I love catching a glimpse of the unexpected flower growing through cracks in a sidewalk, or the furry and feathered critters dodging us humans in their quest for food and shelter.
So he boiled an egg. Once he deduced it to be ready, he removed it, cracked it open and carefully placed it on his recently purchased egg cup.
Several small fires were crackling away and shelters were slung between trees.
Generally, a girl, Clara (Mary, Made or Masha in other versions), is given a nutcracker by her godfather, Herr Drosselmeyer, at a Christmas Eve party arranged by her parents.
Spainhower explains that the pressure of biting on even a hair-thin tippet of mono can crack a preexisting fracture line in the tooth, but more often it is pulling at leader clamped between teeth or the snapping of tooth against tooth after the mono is cut that causes the damage. Chew On This
She's accompanied here by some cracking musicians, including Cunningham himself on piano, cittern and whistles, with Ed Boyd's deft guitar and the bodhrán of Mark Maguire.
Do not cracksmen, when assembled together, entertain themselves with stories of glorious old burglaries which they or bygone heroes have committed? Roundabout Papers
‘Um yeah I'll be out in a minute,’ Cassie quickly answered hearing her voice crack.
The police decided to crack down on drug addicts.
He escaped with a cracked rib and bruising.
We've got a welder and fitter / armourer here, the welder does repairs if there's any cracks in the vehicle.
The 24-hour crackdown is also targeting those who text while driving. NYPD Cracking Down On Drivers Who Talk, Text
Thousands of self-employed high earners face a crackdown as part of a new government drive against tax avoidance. Times, Sunday Times
Big 2WackGo wants their stooge the US government and military to let our shores be flooded with smack (or, in the 80's, crack) if "that's what it takes" to make sure children in this country can't experiment freely with cannabinol instead of nicotine. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
Yes Zach I would prefer "those mustard yellow matchstick built hovels, even with their big asphalt parking lots (with inevitable weed-filled cracks)". See for yourself (Jack Bog's Blog)
Robert blinked in the sudden semi-darkness, the only illumination being the moonlight which shone through cracks in the curtains.
The cake, which was always prepared a day before the holiday, had a graham cracker crust and a cream cheese filling.
“Next thing you know this honkey cracka will want to play Colonial!” Think Progress » State Rep. Compares Black Caucus to the KKK, Demands Membership
The machine's arms lifted up, grasping it's head, rock and stone cracking and falling off in large boulders.
Her legs gave way and she fell, knocking the wind out of her lungs and cracking her head against the hard, tiled floor.
The vocal tone of the group was lovely but there was no oomph, no snap, no crackle and definitely no pop.
Already highly successful in popular music, dance and commercial television, blacks have found the movies a tougher nut to crack.
Put it on a crackerbread with carmelized onions, goat cheese and bits of Parma ham. The Pleasing Day
‘They were replaced as many of them were broken, cracked or lifted,’ he said.
And then just when the melody rose to a peak, her voice had cracked, gone slightly off key. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
The real choice is between becoming a fully fledged United States of Europe, or remaining little more than a modern-day Holy Roman Empire, a gimcrack hodgepodge of "variable geometry" that will sooner or later fall apart. The End of the Euro
Maintenance men could tell whether a pole - wooden or concrete - is dangerously cracked before shinning up it.
In truth, more money in the teachers' pay packets is only papering over the cracks, not attacking and solving the real problems.
Several European governments have pledged to work together to crack down on child pornography and sex tourism.
All that has been accomplished tonight is that one party have vented their spleen by trying to have a crack at another.
He began cracking open big blue tins of butter cookies and feeding the dogs on his route.
It was relaxing to have just the fire and the crackling sound. The Sun
There's a crack in this cup.
The miller knows that there should be a difference in the dress for hulling stones, splitting or cracking stones, wheat stones, middlings stones and vertical burr stones.
The slower speeds were a result of the races being flown with a cracked crankcase.
Trees were broken and cracked open, and buildings had been blasted apart as if by dynamite.
Or it might be that kids already know that "a carrot is a carrot is a carrot," she adds, whereas they're not sure how a specific brand of graham cracker or gummy snack will taste.
The cold white light blazed and the trees were very old and the bark of them was a crackling silver and a lurid darkening red. Times, Sunday Times
A cracked bell can never sound well.
You come all this way and they didn't have any prawn crackers.
But how are we to interpret the symbolism of other cultures; how can we crack their symbolic codes?
New TUC research smashes the myth that public servants are always on the lookout for an excuse to pull a 'sickie' and challenges claims that there are easy savings to be had from cracking down on absence in the public sector. Indymedia Ireland
Make Blog has a great roundup of links and coverage for the opening of Bletchley Park's recreation of the Polish "bombe" code-cracking devices that were instrumental in breaking the German Enigma cipher in World War II. Boing Boing
To many expert ears, compressed music files produce a crackly, tinnier and thinner sound than music on CDs and certainly on vinyl. MyAppleMenu
There was also a craze for ‘speedballs’ where users take a mix of heroin and crack cocaine to sustain their high.
She tried the windows but they were also locked and when she threw things at them they didn't even crack.
_Pussy willow, Glaucous willow_ 40, 41, 171 falcata, Pursh _Black willow_ 42 fragilis, L. _Crack willow, Brittle willow_ 43-45 nigra, Marsh. Handbook of the Trees of New England
On these trips Fred learned many skills such as picking locks and cracking safes.
She makes us thick, sweet, black tea in cracked enamel mugs.
These brownies formed a nice thin crackly top and were best eaten once they were completely cool. Brrrrr-ownies
Best of all, Germany's crackerjack Ensemble Modern played the luminous score with extraordinary virtuosity.
Meanwhile, all sorts of things that at one time or another were considered tests for artificial intelligence — playing chess, doing integrals, doing autonomous control — have been cracked in algorithmic ways. Wolfram Blog : Stephen Wolfram on the Quest for Computable Knowledge
Experts predict about 220,000 people a year will caught by the new crackdown. The Sun
The clay dries and cracks in the sun, and the top layers are blown off as dust.
Use an ice chipper, a lawn edging tool, or a spade to scrape off grass or weeds encroaching on the driveway or inhabiting any cracks.
Opposition leaders accused the government of orchestrating the 2003 coup as a pretext for purging the military and cracking down on political opponents.
The regular replacement of cracked paving stones and filling-in of potholes is one of the things your council tax buys you.
If people are allowed to smoke themselves senseless on marijuana, why shouldn't they be free to inject heroin or freebase crack?
Years of repainting the lockers were beginning to show as layers of paint were cracking off of the lockers around us.
The cold white light blazed and the trees were very old and the bark of them was a crackling silver and a lurid darkening red. Times, Sunday Times
The road snaked upward, its old pavement cracked in places, making the ride a bit rough.
I nearly cracked a tooth biting into it.
Fill cracks and holes with filler and sand smooth. Times, Sunday Times
I hope that if my roommate is out there somewhere and remembers our African layover, she knows in her heart that so-called "good hair" isn't all it's cracked up to be! Helen Davey: Tales of Pan Am: Playing Beauty Shop
Most of the girls were up at the crack of dawn because of their nervous excitement.
He made some wisecrack about my lack of culinary ability.
A cracked bell can never sound well.
Take also with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a pot of honey, and go to him: for he will tell thee what will become of this child. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete

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