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How to use crackle in a sentence

24 example sentences · noun, verb

Crackle means a prolonged, frequent cracking sound; a fizzing, popping sound. Example: “I heard a crackle from the frying pan as I was frying bacon.”

Examples of crackle by meaning

nounA prolonged, frequent cracking sound; a fizzing, popping sound.

  • I heard a crackle from the frying pan as I was frying bacon.
  • There was an annoying crackle during the phone call, due to poor connection.
  • The best clothes which every one put on helped the general effect; it seemed that no lady could sit down without bending a clean starched petticoat, and no gentleman could breathe without a sudden crackle from a stiff shirt-front.1915, Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC

nounSynonym of crackling (“crispy rind of roast pork”).

  • By the look on my face I must have anticipated the joy of the crackle, apparently having come to look forward to the roast pig that appeared only at gatherings such as this.2017, Edgar Maranan, Len Maranan-Goldstein, A Taste of Home: Pinoy Expats and Food Memories

verbTo make a prolonged, frequent cracking sound which sounds like fizzing or popping.

  • a crackling fire
  • He wanted to glorify the leaders of forlorn hopes, the mad lovers, the giants that fought under stress and strain, amid terror and tragedy, making life crackle with the strength of their endeavor.1908 September – 1909 September, Jack London, chapter XIV, in Martin Eden, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published September 1909...

verbTo be full of tension or emotion.

  • The last scenes of the film crackle with repressed sexual energy.

More sentences with crackle

  • Both are recognizably hauntological by virtue of the techniques they employ—VHS crackle, Windows start-up sounds, etc.2019, Tom Whyman, “Oh, They Have the Internet on Computers Now?”, in Alfie Bown, Dan Bristow, editors, Post Memes: Seizing the Memes of…. From the entry hauntological
  • They do something to me, chocolate crackles, mainly put weight on but I adore them.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 115. From the entry chocolate crackle
  • With every snap, crackle and pop on the breakfast table the American accent carries farther.1962, Francis Williams, The American Invasion, page 20. From the entry snap, crackle and pop
  • When the seeds begin to crackle—in about a minute—pour four waterglassfuls of cold water over them.1953, Esquire’s Handbook for Hosts, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, page 29. From the entry waterglassful
  • He looked to see the secretary, vised and crackled in those arms, drop limp and senseless.1904, The Cambrian - Volume 24, page 166. From the entry vise
  • In the great old-fashioned fireplace behind the high iron dogs a log-fire crackled and snapped.1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles. From the entry dog
  • With a crackled voice, she yells out, “Who's there?!”2020, Ena Kosmo, Quinn's Reality. From the entry crackled
  • Behe’s name, and not theirs, crackled triumphantly around the memosphere.2007 July 1, Richard Dawkins, “Inferior Design”, in New York Times. From the entry memosphere
  • The channel-bill cuckoos disturbed one another, up in the skies, shouting in a frenzy of old man’s crackle.2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Constable (2009), page 361. From the entry channel-bill cuckoo
  • The machine shashed and crackled, broadcasting silence.2003, Libby Purves, Casting Off. From the entry shash
  • Troublement and emotion crackled just below the blanketing surface.2000, Diane Carey, Ship of the Line. From the entry troublement
  • But the few paragraphs of real information are hard to find in the snap, crackle, and pop of gossip and insult.1977, The New York Review of Books. From the entry snap, crackle and pop
  • Fans crackled, feet shuffled, tobacco-chewers were in agony.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC. From the entry sweat out
  • Finally in all the crackle and noise of the short-wave one of our men made contact with another boat.1941, John Steinbeck, chapter I, in The Log from the Sea of Cortez […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, published 1951, →OCLC, page 7. From the entry shortwave
  • This is a crazy, dishevelled, often hilarious film, in which lightning flashes of wit and insight crackle periodically across a plane of tedium.2018 August 31, Peter Bradshaw, “The Other Side of the Wind review – lost Orson Welles epic is hurricane of anger and wit”, in The Guardian. From the entry dishevelled
  • Thanks to the magic of teleconferencing, often the format for a given show is call-in, and the phones and airwaves crackle with logolepsy.2003, Richard Lederer, A Man of My Words. From the entry logolepsy
  • Meanwhile, I'm catering for Verity's fifth birthday party on the same day at 2 p.m. – am up to my armpits tonight in honey joys and chocolate crackles!2011, Jacqueline Pascarl, Abducted: The Fourteen-Year Fight to Find My Children. From the entry chocolate crackle

Meaning of crackle

  1. noun A prolonged, frequent cracking sound; a fizzing, popping sound.
  2. noun A style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks.
  3. noun The fifth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, and jounce), i.e. the rate of change of jounce.

Full definition of crackle

Questions about crackle in a sentence

How do you use crackle in a sentence?
Crackle is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I heard a crackle from the frying pan as I was frying bacon.”
What is a short sentence with crackle?
“a crackling fire”
What does crackle mean?
Crackle means a prolonged, frequent cracking sound; a fizzing, popping sound.

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