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How to use crackling in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun, adjective

Crackling means fat that, after roasting a joint, hardens and crispens. Example: “She was delighted when she heard the crackling sound of the eggs hatching.”

Examples of crackling by meaning

nounThe crispy rind of roast pork.

  • To make chicken crackling, use 500 g (1 lb 1V2 oz) chicken skin.2011 February 28, Arlene Diego, Step by Step Cooking Filipino: Delightful Ideas for Everyday Meals, Marshall Cavendish International Asia...

nounThe making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.

  • the bangs and cracklings of fireworks

More sentences with crackling

  • She was delighted when she heard the crackling sound of the eggs hatching.From the entry hatch
  • The old vinyl record made a crusty crackling sound as the needle hit it.From the entry crusty
  • There was a crackling sound in the vicinity of my right ear.From the entry vicinity
  • A crackling cloud billowed up and Elfloq had drawn in several breathfuls before he could stagger back out of range.2001, Sean Wallace, Strange Pleasures, page 61. From the entry breathful
  • "You could hear it crackling—it was really horrible."2000 November 2, Christine Rush, “Family lucky to escape fire”, in The Press, Christchurch: Independent Newspapers, News, page 3. From the entry goneburger
  • Divination by the crackling of a donkey's head when burnt.1973, K. Ellis, Prediction and Prophecy iii. From the entry kephalomancy
  • They live vigorously, feast Gargantuanly, roister lustily, sing mightily, spin tall tales around their crackling fires at night.1946 May, Don Eddy, “Ride, Rancheros, Ride!”, in Holiday, volume 1, number 3, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN…. From the entry gargantuanly
  • He put the sticks on the fire, and fetched more, till they had a good crackling chimneyful of blaze.1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XIV, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC. From the entry chimneyful
  • A birdchief, bluestreaked and feathered in war panoply with his assegai, striding through a crackling canebrake over beechmast and acorns.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses. From the entry assegai
  • They towed us to their depot, wheeled out a fantastic piece of Czechnology and attached a pair of crackling electrodes to our battery.1992, Dave Rimmer, Once upon a time in the East, page 236. From the entry Czechnology
  • Her voice crackling over the phone, she asked me to write down "all the slipstreamy thoughts from the pocket of my soul" and send them to her.2012, Melanie Schnell, While the Sun Is Above Us, Calgary, A.B.: Freehand Books, →ISBN, page 21. From the entry slipstreamy
  • Although Birdibil was warm in his family wungkurr or windbreak that night, lying next to a crackling fire and covered with some paperbark blankets (kawan), he had little sleep.2000, Darrell Huff, Settlement: A History Of Australian Indigenous Housing, Aboriginal Studies Press, page 19. From the entry windbreak
  • On his belly he wriggles up to the sanda's hole, rustling the tuft of grass with a noise which resembles the crackling of a snake's scales.1913, Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, page 122. From the entry sanda
  • He coughed sputum stained with blood, and a scraping, crackling noise came from his chest, quite audible to anyone in the room. ‘Lungs possibly not too good,’ the leech said.1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 11. From the entry leech
  • The Bible seems to refer to such a hypergelastic character in the saying of Ecclesiastes: "As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool.1978, Evan Esar, The Comic Encyclopedia: A Library of the Literature and History of Humor Containing Thousands of Gags, Sayings, and…. From the entry hypergelastic

Meaning of crackling

  1. noun Fat that, after roasting a joint, hardens and crispens.
  2. noun The crispy rind of roast pork.
  3. noun A crispy, fried skin or rind, especially of pork.

Full definition of crackling

Questions about crackling in a sentence

How do you use crackling in a sentence?
Crackling is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “She was delighted when she heard the crackling sound of the eggs hatching.”
What is a short sentence with crackling?
“the bangs and cracklings of fireworks”
What does crackling mean?
Crackling means fat that, after roasting a joint, hardens and crispens.

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