crack wide open
Example Sentences
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But Nora has taken out a secret loan to help her husband recover from an illness, and when the truth emerges the faultlines in their marriage crack wide open.
From BBC • Jul. 11, 2012
But this time, with the gallery waiting for Guldahl's game to crack wide open, it did the opposite.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A muffled exclamation from Lablet brought them all around to see that distant curving roof crack wide open.
From Star Born by Norton, Andre
The structure is at times rather loose, particularly in the Finale where the joints often crack wide open.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond
No other eleven had stood up so long under Delmar's terrific charging and John Brown's team must crack wide open soon.
From Interference and Other Football Stories by Sherman, Harold Morrow