crackle
verb (used without object)
to make slight, sudden, sharp noises, rapidly repeated.
are crackling
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present progressiveof crackle.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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There are crackling storms, sweeping winds and unimaginable heights and lows of temperature.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2022
And the celebratory lights that have been strung across the parlor are crackling and expiring, one by one.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2016
The lighting is dim, and in Rodrigo Marçal’s spare score of looping guitar and keyboard and expanses of silence, there are crackling suggestions — but only suggestions — of gunfire.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2014
They are crackling, and their leaves and branches are like tinder.
From The Insurrection in Paris by Davy (An Englishman)
And yet where could more real comfort be found than in such an old house, especially when a November storm is howling without, and here indoors great fir logs are crackling in the gay-tiled stove?
From A Sister's Love A Novel by W. Heimburg
