crackle
verb (used without object)
to make slight, sudden, sharp noises, rapidly repeated.
have crackled
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present perfectof crackle.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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It is said to have crackled so loudly Wayne thought it was broken.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2015
If you had laid your hand in the beard or hair of one of these men it would have crackled and shot sparks.
From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 by Ambrose Bierce
This was laborious work, for he plunged ankle-deep at every step; but the leaves, sodden with a week's rain, made a noiseless carpet, whereas the brushwood might have crackled and betrayed him.
From Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
The Great Fire must have crackled very loud in their stony ears, and they must have shaken day and night, as the bodies of the victims of the Plague were rattled over the pavements.
From Our Hundred Days in Europe by Oliver Wendell Holmes
