Example Sentences

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All the Arctic peoples had been thrown into panic, and so had the animals, not only by the fog and the magnetic variations but by unseasonal crackings of ice and stirrings in the soil.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

I said nothing, and Leper, having said so much, went on to say more, to speak above the wind and crackings as though his story would never be finished.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

The campus was impressive for what happened within its walls: chest crackings, organ transplants, molecular imagings, genetic probes, and virtually any other medical service known in the advanced world.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

The fruit is not yet gathered, and a thousand unaccustomed snappings and crackings make the trees resemble animate beings.

From The Devil's Pool by Ives, George Burnham

And each adjective is set off with a rattling fusillade of crackings from his great whip.

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa