crackling
Example Sentences
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All that crackling pressure on one athlete, the hushed ooooooohhs from the rafters, all of it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
People who have Starlinks don’t let it be known and only upload videos to people they trust, he said over his crackling and distorted Starlink connection.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 13, 2026
The camera cuts to Elizabeth’s actual surroundings: a New York City apartment, where the radiator clacks and hisses in place of a crackling fire, and the view is brick, not snow-dusted pasture.
From Salon • Dec. 25, 2025
The show might not have the crackling vitality of “Hamilton” or the bluesy poignancy of “The Scottsboro Boys.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025
Nokomis, Mama, Deydey, Pinch, Angeline, and Omakayas all ran outside, gazed on the horizon, and saw the crackling and snapping waves of the ice.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
