How To Use Cracking In A Sentence

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
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.
The hyena exploits carcasses more fully than either cat because of its bone-cracking abilities.
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
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.

I can't wait to get cracking on next year 's crop and see what that might bring. Times, Sunday Times
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.
On 11 minutes, the visitors thought that they had taken the lead but a cracking effort went inches wide of the target.
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.
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 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.
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.
He began cracking open big blue tins of butter cookies and feeding the dogs on his route.
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.
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
On these trips Fred learned many skills such as picking locks and cracking safes.
Opposition leaders accused the government of orchestrating the 2003 coup as a pretext for purging the military and cracking down on political opponents.
Years of repainting the lockers were beginning to show as layers of paint were cracking off of the lockers around us.
Vermeer's dreamy interior light and Manet's poised brushstrokes are beautifully rendered, and Bierk even duplicates the cracking of paint.
Usually a pipe, known as a dip leg, is connected to this bottom outlet and, in catalytic cracking, serves to convey the solids back to the catalyst bed.
And again that conceptual cracking of glass. What the Bee Knows - reflections on myth, symbol and story
Revenue was also busy cracking illegal cigarette and tobacco smuggling.
There has been a lot of drinking. We are cracking down now. Anyone who gets caught is fired.
I let out a fiendish, ear-splitting yell, finally cracking.
Feeling left out, two of my otherwise quiet Facebook friends inboxed me, asking why everybody was cracking up.
Solving an author's puzzles can be one of the most rewarding things about cracking open a book.
Potholing, creation of a steep-sided bowlshaped cavity, may be caused by loss of surfacing, basecourse erosion, advanced cracking under traffic or severe weather, or water-induced blowouts.
I yelled, my voice cracking and squeaking through my panic.
The cracking of the postillions ' whips, and the velocity with which they drove up to the door, brought out every man, woman and child, to gaze at the new comers, whose appearance sufficiently bespoke their errand.
This thesis is concerning the acetylene produced through co - cracking coal and natural gas by plasma jet.
After the hot dry summer, the soil is cracking up.
You're always the one cracking up the group with your jokes and stories.
He also has a fondness for baseball caps, and presides over the recording studio much like a sports coach might encourage his team from a dug-out, cajoling, wisecracking and offering suggestions.
The dead man fell backwards, his head cracking against the lap of a stone buddha.
Cracking crude oil based feedstocks such as naphtha or gas oil yields higher ratios of the ethylene co-products propylene, butylenes and butadiene plus the aromatic products benzene, toluene, xylenes along with other co-products.
There was a horrible crunching noise which turned out to be The Chief's dentures cracking in two.
Removing dead skin will make your feet less susceptible to cracking. The Sun
Mix the ingredients and a compelling story emerges - not only because it is a cracking yarn but because we think we know most of the details already.
This should be a cracking encounter with Enniscrone seeking revenge for last year's defeat by Calry in the quarter final of the competition.
He topped the contest on Horseshoe Lake with a cracking net of bream and skimmers scaling an impressive 77 lb 14 oz.
Add in the demographics, and cracking the home market looks even more daunting.
Seemingly insignificant scratches in glass may cause cracking and breakage while processing jars in a canner.
Grange regrouped once more and pulled four points ahead however Palatine pulled back this lead once more thanks mainly to a cracking Moran goal.
Nine staff members celebrated the opening by cutting a ribbon and cracking open a bottle of champagne.
Much wisecracking, little introspection, in other words, as an officer who has used his brains and not the rulebook to solve military situations gets sent to the arse end of nowhere to serve with a crew of misfits on an old rustbucket, wherein he is reunited with an old sidekick. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Starship Mutiny - Mike Resnick
The organisation has asked for our help in cracking down on abusive corporations, abusive trusts and tax shelters.
I think we need to get cracking if we're going to catch this train.
With gunfire cracking all around, the soldier seized his commander's radio and relayed what had happened to other members of the platoon. Times, Sunday Times
The library is cracking down on people who lose their books.
The toytown shopping park at the bottom of my road has gained yet another cracking addition - an HMV.
The team is really up for it and we should have some excellent support on the day, making it a cracking match.
The police are cracking down on people who use the internet in unacceptable ways. The Sun
He did nearly score two cracking goals.
I think Paul's cracking up under the strain of work.
The Scottish Executive is cracking up under the strain of misruling the country.
We were in pursuit of a cracking story and we couldn't stop talking about it.
It's a cracking read about racing and betting and how the two are intertwined. The Sun
The sound of bones cracking and men gagging becomes irritatingly repetitive. Times, Sunday Times
It's a belter of a voice in fact: not King's College Chapel material, maybe, but decently formed, in tune, and able to get the high notes without straining or cracking.
I said I was embarrassed not to know; someone had assured me that a theremin was a kind of "Eastern" religion, and the "cracking into a thousand pieces" was the consequence of being peered at by a waiflike holy man enveloped in a white shroud. Archive 2007-06-01
Once the breakage was fixed, four of the five boats took off at a cracking pace with Germany in the lead.
She's cracking up under the strain.
In 1940, curare was introduced to moderate the vertebrae-cracking force of the convulsions, and succinylcholine was introduced in 1952.
Another cause of cracking is overworking of the lead, usually around the corners and upstands.
Drain and refresh immediately in cold water, cracking the egg shells to allow the eggs to cool more quickly. 3.
So get cracking with some couscous and roasted vegetables, topped with grilled halloumi. The Sun
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.
It is not that he is without humour or fun - friends in Sweden such as Bengt Skoog, the freelance journalist based in Larsson's home town of Helsingborg, regularly tell of his wisecracking and wind-ups.
A host of chances went begging and they had a cracking goal from John Hartless ruled out for offside.
The chicks began growing wider, taller, more robust beaks similar to those of a nut - cracking finch.
I was working with cracking people, was happily married, life seemed pretty gorgeous.
It's brash, lively and moves along at a cracking pace - but it's not the all-conquering success that its hype suggests.
The cracking of an old bough, or the hooting of the owl, was enough to fill me with alarm, and try my strength in a precipitate flight.
Food had been served to them earlier by an orderly grown accustomed to glacial silences, split only by the odd cracking of a wooden chair. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
Look into their big old reindeer eyes and you'll wish you could love those wise-cracking antlered darlings to pieces, but then they lumber into the air and break the spell.
The maths would suggest that speed plus jumping ability equals a cracking long jump. Times, Sunday Times
Citigroup said Reliance's management had indicated that a planned shutdown of a fluidized catalytic cracking unit had hit production of higher-value products. Reliance Industries Drags India Shares Lower
He is cracking on in years now, in any case, and may not hanker for the grind of touring. Times, Sunday Times
There is little evidence knuckle cracking causes arthritis. The Sun
Although still without a win this season, this multi-talented five-year-old has run two cracking races.
Certainly the most disturbing development as the crime insurgency continues is the appearance of the police cracking under strain.
This will ward off corrosion and prevent the cap cracking under normal dive depth pressures.
The monomer, ethene or ethylene, is obtained in large quantities from the cracking of petroleum.
Daniel Crossley as the guilt-haunted Paul, Rachel Wooding as a pigeon-toed ding-a-ling and Nina French as a chorine cracking under the strain of her fixed smile also stand out in a first-rate cast.
This is a cracking good story, funny, sad, thrilling, and thought provoking.
Millions of faulty rubber snap-in valve stems were recalled in 2008 for premature cracking, which led to air leakage and tire deflation. Tire valve stem date coding: A good idea that all tire valve makers should consider
Australia's top single sculler, Amber Halliday took off at a cracking pace.
Hydrocracking also performs isomerization for pour-point control and smoke-point control, both of which are important in high-quality jet fuel. Cracking
As they drew closer to Sara's there was a loud boom and a cracking sound.
He began cracking open big blue tins of butter cookies and feeding the dogs on his route.
Cracking a nut open that way is sometimes called hatching, and that is how I come by the name of Nuthatch. Burgess Bird Book for Children
As she finished cracking the safe, she glanced around the office, still fighting back the feeling of unease.
If we're talking password security - and remember, this wasn't really a password cracking, so I'm getting off topic here - the best thing is a "passphrase", not a password. "Other /b/tards were displeased to miss a chance at the lulz."
To prevent glass or plastic from cracking, do not use hot water.
These fungous growths appear as dark-colored spots, which arrest the growth of the apple immediately beneath, causing it to become distorted, while the expansion and contraction bring on diseased action, which results in the cracking and general scabbiness of the fruit. The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot.
I'VE got cracking and itching between my toes on one foot. The Sun
The perimeter cavity walls of the building, face brick outside, plastered blockwork inside, exhibit slight but widespread cracking at many locations.
Post subject: Cracking open peach pits - are they safe to eat? the pit does contain cyanogenetic glycosides which when they are digested produce cyanide as a byproduct, but you would have to eat alot of pits to get sick. Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums
When allowed to, he can be much funnier than Johnson, but there's not much call for a wise-cracking foreign secretary.
Cracking his lids open the veriest fraction, he looked out from beneath his lashes. ON A WICKED DAWN
I noted that my catalyzer pack was having trouble keeping up — cracking the CO7 atmosphere and topping up the two flat body-form bottles at my waist. The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection
And by the time I was cracking eggs into the pan to go with a pile of toast, he was larking about, making sarcastic remarks about the Queen Mother and her 101st birthday, and it was clear no harm had been done.
One of them was also cracking a joke or telling a story.
With technical details of the security system already circulating on the Internet, instructions for cracking it will almost certainly make their way into the computer underground.
Pam Henderson, at four, was in cracking form and demolished her opponent, losing only a handful of points in three sets.
Good frames are made with kiln-dried wood to prevent warping and cracking.
She needs a wisecracking New York cop in a vest. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of a bunch of layabouts smoking glue and cracking charlie's horse with LSD, we could have good, fit criminals with discipline and firearms skills.
The ruling Gaullists and the Communists alike were in danger of cracking under the strain of the May Events.
Everywhere paint was chipping, wood was cracking, piles of putrid garbage were collecting, and laundry lines were being strung anywhere it was possible to do so.
We set out at a cracking pace and met only charabancs overloaded with defiant voters.
Screw lock ring heat exchangers as main equipments are used in hydrogenation cracking plant which have many shortcomings.
The wood grain should run longitudinally to minimize warping and cracking.
For this particular bridge the amount of prestressing was determined by limiting the axial tensile stress in the slab to approximately half the cracking strength of the concrete under 50 percent of the design live load.
But for every new-found friend ready to stand a drink at the bar, there is a wisecracking motormouth, resentful of a footballer's many blessings, fervently determined to downsize the over-inflated ego attributed to all players.
The smaller live sandeels instead of the massive launce will sometimes work better and you always have the chance of a cracking pollack.
Police had been cracking down on dissidents, and the idealistic young Italian may not have realised the potential danger he was in. Times, Sunday Times
The police are cracking down on people who use the internet in unacceptable ways. The Sun
It revolved clockwise in some unseen orbit, then counterclockwise, immediately before a loud cracking, like summer thunder, filled the air.
Of course, you can just reheat and re-serve the whole meal over and over until the stuffing starts drying out and cracking. Undefined
One of the important reactions in oil refinement is hydrocarbon cracking.
The door fell forward, cracking and splintering violently before being tossed gruesomely to the side.
She has a cracking record in a visor and wears one for the first time this year. The Sun
It has a cracking beer garden, superb ale selection and an ambient atmosphere.
Sadly, despite the crazy antics and the relentless wisecracking, there's very little plot to carry this film.
Cracking down upon terrorism including the East Turkistan Islamic Movement is a consensus reached among the international community, especially regional countries.
They will be hoping to produce the form that saw Spurs get a 4-0 drubbing on their own patch and this should be a cracking match. The Sun
Sadly, despite the crazy antics and the relentless wisecracking, there's very little plot to carry this film.
With this in mind Switzerland's Stephan Steiner took off at a cracking pace in heat one and never looked back.
A seal of beryl, of chrysolite, of ruby; to make impressions (all in good time and proper place though) and receive none: incapable, just as they are, of splitting, or cracking, or flawing, or harbouring dirt. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
It's all a matter of cracking the 'psychographic' of a very tribal market, he said. Times, Sunday Times
It's because of Fox's redivision of the ratings pie that a later series like the WB's (and then UPN's) Buffy the Vampire Slayer could qualify as buzzworthy despite never coming close to cracking the Top Twenty in the Nielsen ratings. The Murdoch Touch
This method of production is still used although oxidation of methane, pyrolysis of alkanes, and cracking of hydrocarbons are more commonly encountered.
The four girls ran a cracking 4x100m relay to record a second consecutive relay win in the League.
The majority of the manufacturing is from the catalytic cracking of ethane, petroleum fractions, and crude oil.
We stood sipping under Nikos's walnut tree, cracking nuts and watching Psiloritis flush from pale orange to deep mauve in the light of the setting sun.
In a zero-tolerance initiative, Manchester city council is cracking down on dog owners who allow their pets to foul public spaces.
Reforming represents the total effect of numerous reactions such as cracking, polymerization, dehydrogenation, and isomerization taking place simultaneously (Figure 9). Cracking
Hydrocracking produces relatively large amounts of isobutane for alkylation feedstock. Cracking
We were sitting round the fire cracking nuts .
It was a cracking climax to an intense week of future fashion.
Also, because a glass reflector is harder and more scratch-resistant than a metal reflector, cracking of the coating is minimized, providing a longer service life.
She needs a wisecracking New York cop in a vest. Times, Sunday Times
One of my favorite moments finds Eric Burdon asked to lead his fellow Animals in a kind of conga line toward Unsworth's camera as "House of the Rising Sun" charges toward its crescendic finale; as a straight-faced Burdon relates his story of a man brought low, guitarist Hilton Valentine, visible just behind him, can't resist cracking up at the absurdity of what they're doing to promote their record. Archive 2006-09-10
Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan Bonnie Englebardt Lautenberg with Sen. Chuck Schumer The newsman was the evening's emcee, cracking jokes for local politicians who came out to support the S.L.E. Lupus Foundation, which helps fund research to combat its titular ailment. Local Politicians Gather to Aid Lupus Research
I'VE got cracking and itching between my toes on one foot. The Sun
Cracking them open can be hard work, and you're going to get messy (a bib is provided), but the reward of large chunks of succulent crabmeat with a spicy kick makes it worth the effort. After Hours: Singapore
I can't stop myself, and I hear my voice straining, on the verge of cracking, but I can't stop that either.
The Army side played at a cracking pace in the first half and were up 8 nil at half time.
Tons of girls tell us that, in today's competitive world, talents like hitting homeruns, cracking hilarious jokes, playing a mean flute or being a forever friend just don't cut it anymore.
The mass fraction of n - butene in mixed C 4 from catalytic cracking after etherized was approximately 40 %.
Another cracking cup tie and we are through with style. The Sun
This provides additives that are used in the fluid catalyst cracking process in petroleum refining. Times, Sunday Times
They all had a very relaxed enjoyment about them, cracking jokes, goofing through a Rolling Stones tune (and then turning it into Stanley Clarke's School Days just for grins).
The fibers from used carpeting can be added to concrete slabs to help prevent them from cracking.
Then she heard a cracking noise and shortly afterwards the smoke detector sounded.
The happy surprise is only properly matched by the danger and excitement of cracking open a bottle of the king of effervescence.
The story was a bit different from the traditional tale but it was still cracking!
The complex composite structure of the plane would be weakened by any colouring, as heat would build up, leading to delamination and possible cracking.
The husband-and-wife producers of the Oscar-nominated film "Precious" will be working with the author and a screenwriter to adapt the humorous heroine -- a wise-cracking third-grader -- for the big screen. News Junkies
The leges Iuliae, or Julian laws, were introduced in apparent response to a dwindling marriage rate among the Roman elite and contained strict new measures aimed at cracking down on such laxity while offering economic incentives to marry and procreate. Caesars’ Wives
So he spent the next seven years inventing a system of chemically impregnated paper strips that when rubbed together made a cracking noise.
Of course, before you can get cracking on a second dialect, it helps if you've achieved some level of mastery of your first language.
However, just as one side invented an ingenious new way to encipher its messages, so would its enemies discover a clever way of cracking that code.
Here's a fabulous little inn at a cracking price on one of our favourite Caribbean islands. Times, Sunday Times
All of the time-consuming, head-cracking effort of an editor has relaxed and evened out, as though deftly pressed by some magic iron, and a benison has spread over the evening.
An example would be dry, warm, or windy conditions that cause excessive shrinkage and cracking in overlays.
Try as they might to update their image, it seems we in the press are incapable of reporting on those abiding British institutions without cracking mean-minded jokes about woggles and campfire ditties.
Get cracking, please!
Mouths caked numb by a throat-cracking berg wind, we lurched back along the beach, bumbling along the craggy rocks to rest beneath the overhang, surfed out strandlopers looking wild and red-eyed.
The former champion ran such a cracking race in third.
Hard as I try, I can't picture myself in a traditional bridal gown without cracking up.
The general cracked one between his front teeth, tossed the shell into a com - munal basket in the center of the long table, and gnawed on the nutmeat Soon the room was filled with sharp cracking noises and Hying shells. The Moment of the Magician
Police are cracking down hard on drug dealers.
Carrying a light weight and a first-time visor he has a cracking chance. The Sun
He is cracking on in years now, in any case, and may not hanker for the grind of touring. Times, Sunday Times
It looks to me as if some pusher may be cracking the blockade by using SCRC people as caddies. THE RECYCLED CITIZEN
Then there was the yearly appearance of the young lady who, clad in riding outfit and cracking a mean whip, leapt on to the stage carolling ‘The next horse I ride on I'm going to be tied on.’
Researchers have been unable to prove what actually causes joint cracking. Times, Sunday Times
The goals flowed in a cracking all-round performance. The Sun
He rubbed his hands together, cracking his knuckles as he tried to control his anger.
He carried the ball at pace from halfway towards the box before cracking a right-foot shot from 20 yards out.
Fifteen behaviors involved foraging using tools, such as probing for ants with sticks and cracking nuts with stones.
The others love taking the mickey out of my accent, but they are a cracking set of lads, and from day one made me feel very welcome.
Featuring an up to scratch all-star cast, it is Close who really shines, with a cracking quirky little performance, again demonstrating her range.
Cousin Liam and Nate were just a pair of casual guys who sat around smoking cigarettes and cracking jokes.
Many local councils have also cut back on control work, such as cracking down on the illicit tobacco trade. The Sun
Beyond rose the apartment houses where the middle and lower classes lived, those of the poorer characterized by few windows and cracking plaster, and those of the better-off by the wonderful multistoried murals painted by the gypsy artists, and by the brilliant azurine tiles which kept the houses warm in winter and cool in summer. The Tar-Aiym Krang
Safecracking both back fours would be hard. Times, Sunday Times
I'm sure they had a cracking Easter with all those chocolate eggs.
It yields functional prototypes that can be assembled using self-tapping screws without cracking.
The European Commission is cracking down on national mobile operators who overcharge fixed line operators for connecting to their network.
We both started cracking up when we looked to the back and saw that Guy was still limping on one foot to the boys locker room.
I have never tested a Persian walnut where the cracking pressure runs much over 40kg and it is rather unusual for a Japan walnut to run much over 200kg, yet Cording is 419kg, a strength of shell greater than that of any other nut sent into the contest this year and which is only found among black walnuts and shellbark hickories. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919
His previous close fourth was a cracking effort. The Sun
Grabbing a wine glass, he slammed it on the table, the glass cracking under the force.
For sipping hot chocolate or cracking a beer by the fire, the new après skiwear may well be a pinstripe blazer and tie.

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