crackle

Instead we heard the crackle of automatic gunfire and we could see gray smoke rising from the eastern side of the town.

They sport a leathery, crackle-textured skin and glow with salt-and-pepper zest.

In terms of charisma, the guy has all the snap, crackle, and pop of pudding.

Then one hears the crackle of gunfire in the air, the Somali soldiers begin yelling at Carstens about his camera.

Their scenes together crackle; theirs is a battle of wicked wits between two women who have seen it all.

Burn the male olive-branch and the pine twig and juniper, and let the blazing laurel crackle amid the hearth.

But the sentence never was finished, for a sharp crackle of dry leaves was heard.

He had unfolded the newspaper slowly and carefully, the sharp crackle of the paper would have been a clarion call to Agnes.

Already below sprang a crackle, a roar, as the night wind caught the flame.

He could hear them crackle as she unfolded them—could hear her sigh of content.