- present participle of crack.
cracking
Example Sentences
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Some residents said the walls in their buildings were already cracking before the quakes and rebar was exposed in some columns, signs of what they called shoddy construction.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2026
Compared with conventional asphalt, PMA is more flexible and better able to resist cracking, rutting, and water damage, making it well suited to Hawaii's tropical climate.
From Science Daily • Jun. 28, 2026
If temperatures dropped quickly below minus 20C, or sometimes minus 30C, the water in the pipes was liable to freeze, cracking the pipes and ruining the whole system.
From BBC • Jun. 18, 2026
Many governments have begun cracking down on young people's access to social media, but campaigners have appealed to G7 leaders meeting in France to move quickly on regulating generative artificial intelligence too.
From Barron's • Jun. 16, 2026
Carefully cracking the few seeds that remained in his mouth, he thought again about a bridge.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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