cracking

SINGAPORE—The crowd gasped as the brokers swung the wooden mallets on the lid of the sake barrel, cracking it open in celebration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Australia will reduce migration by curbing "visa hopping", tightening rules on students and working holiday makers as well as cracking down on overstayers, its interior minister said Thursday, as the far-right surges in the polls.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

The launch party for Alastair McKimm’s new magazine, Prototype, was cracking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

This was a cracking game last season, which finished 2-2, and is arguably Arsenal's toughest test so far in this campaign.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

He heard the cracking of ice as the bear began to claw its way up the side of the ravine.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

I said nothing, and Leper, having said so much, went on to say more, to speak above the wind and crackings as though his story would never be finished.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

All the Arctic peoples had been thrown into panic, and so had the animals, not only by the fog and the magnetic variations but by unseasonal crackings of ice and stirrings in the soil.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

The campus was impressive for what happened within its walls: chest crackings, organ transplants, molecular imagings, genetic probes, and virtually any other medical service known in the advanced world.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

In others, the joints, although stiff, can be moved but exhibit pronounced crackings.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson

The gallery was crowded; so crowded that, from time to time, there were ominous crackings, but the people in their excitement did not notice this.

From The Son of Monte-Cristo by Jules Lermina