crepitant
- a word derived from crepitate.
Example Sentences
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They looked solemnly into the crepitant blaze of the new fire.
From The Judge by West, Rebecca
The symptoms of this were well marked, viz: a chill followed by fever, cough, brick-dust sputa, delirium, pain over lower half of right lung, which was solidified, and afterward gave the crepitant and sub-crepitant roles.
From Report on Surgery to the Santa Clara County Medical Society by Cox, Joseph Bradford
The putrefactive gases evolved cause the skin to become emphysematous and crepitant and produce an offensive odour.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
A huge, leathery bat, suspended upside down in the far corner, cheeped with dry, crepitant sounds of irritation.
From Darkness and Dawn by England, George Allan
"It's a puzzle with three sides to it," he thought, as he descended the crepitant stairs, "The Bookshop, the Octagon, and Weintraub's; but that book seems to be the clue to the whole business."
From The Haunted Bookshop by Morley, Christopher
