crackle
verb (used without object)
to make slight, sudden, sharp noises, rapidly repeated.
were crackling
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past progressiveof crackle.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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For her first go-round at the holiday decoration gig last year, Jill Biden’s theme was “Gifts from the Heart” and there were crackling fires throughout the mansion.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2022
Around a conference table in the main building, tensions were crackling over medication-assisted treatment.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2018
And just two days after the Cladoosby fishing trip, 600 pounds of skewered salmon were crackling over alderwood on a 15-foot long grill behind the tribe’s community center.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2018
From the coast hills clear up to timberline in the High Sierras, timber and brush were crackling dry and ready to flare like spilled gunpowder.
From Time Magazine Archive
The summers were crackling hot, the air dry and perfumed with the vanilla scent of ponderosa bark.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
