crepitate
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V. rap, snap, tap, knock, ping; click; clash; crack, crackle; crash; pop; slam, bang, blast, boom, clap, clang, clack, whack, wham; brustle†; burst on the ear; crepitate, rump. blow up, blow; detonate.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
The sixpences do not "bang" in this country: they crepitate, they crackle, as though shot from a Maxim quick-firer.
From America To-day, Observations and Reflections by Archer, William
The portions containing air are of a light brick-red colour, and crepitate under the finger.
From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by Robertson, W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison )
From farther off, heard at Equator Town for instance, the measures rose and fell and crepitated like the barking of hounds in a distant kennel.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
The years were full, the house was fated, The rotten structure crepitated!
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Stevenson, Robert Louis
The mansionHad marked his fatuous expansion.The years were full, the house was fated,The rotten structure crepitated!
From Moral Emblems by Stevenson, Robert Louis
People do not mince along the banks of streams in patent-leather shoes or crepitating silks.
From Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness by Van Dyke, Henry
A number of little crepitating sounds like paper being smoothed.
From Love and Mr. Lewisham by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Arrowroot is distinguished by the granules agglomerating into small balls, by slightly crepitating when rubbed between the fingers, and by yielding with boiling water a fine, transparent, inodorous and pleasant-tasting jelly.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
A dully grinding, crepitating sound came up to the lofty heights of Eagle Crown.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett
And there he sits, meditating over Carlyle’s crepitating fire and Rousseau’s writhing, sibilating flame.
From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares
