crepitate
verb (used without object)
to make a crackling sound; crackle.
crepitant
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a word derived from
crepitate.
Example Sentences
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A huge, leathery bat, suspended upside down in the far corner, cheeped with dry, crepitant sounds of irritation.
From Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England
Even the moist breath of the sea beyond had quite evaporated before it crossed the plaza, and now rustled the leaves in the Mission garden with a dry, crepitant sound.
From A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories by Bret Harte
The crash no longer rolled afar, but cracked close to the ear, hard, crepitant.
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
The gangrenous process spreads with appalling rapidity, the limb becoming enormously swollen, painful, and crepitant or even tympanitic.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
"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 Christopher Morley
