crackle
verb (used without object)
to make slight, sudden, sharp noises, rapidly repeated.
had been crackling
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past perfect progressiveof crackle.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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His own radio had been crackling a call, and now this response was coming across the void.
From The Finding of Haldgren by Charles Willard Diffin
