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She learned that his voice could be as silky as a cat's fur one moment and crisp and crackling with oaths the next.

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 Meanings and Examples of CRACKLE
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crackle
 v.  make a succession of slight sharp snapping noises; show liveliness, energy, or intensity
Classic Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
1  The night was so still that they heard the frozen snow crackle under their feet.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  The room was dark, lit as it was by one small window, and so thick with smoke that she was blinded, but she could hear the hiss and crackle of flames.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
3  Everything seemed to be listening to the crackle and clatter and earthshaking thunder.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
4  His face was so dry and grimy that he thought he could feel his skin crackle.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
5  The woods began to crackle as if afire.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
6  Yet, in spite of his shabby and even absurd appearance, his voice had a sharp crackle, and his manner a quick intensity which commanded attention.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
7  They split up the wood, pressed it down on the fire, blew at it with their mouths, and fanned it with the skirts of their greatcoats, making the flames hiss and crackle.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER VIII
8  She learned that his voice could be as silky as a cat's fur one moment and crisp and crackling with oaths the next.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
9  It seemed as if we could hear the corn growing in the night; under the stars one caught a faint crackling in the dewy, heavy-odoured cornfields where the feathered stalks stood so juicy and green.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIX
10  There was a crackling in the branches above us, and Lena Lingard peered down over the edge of the bank.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
11  After which, by the rustling of leaves, and crackling of dried twigs, it was apparent the savages were separating in pursuit of the lost trail.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
12  He wished to get out of hearing of the crackling shots which were to him like voices.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
13  He heard then the noise of a fire crackling briskly in the cold air, and, turning his head, he saw his friend pottering busily about a small blaze.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
14  Down he fell into the chasm, crackling down among trees, bushes, logs, loose stones, till he lay bruised and groaning thirty feet below.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  Legree burned the hair, and burned the letter; and when he saw them hissing and crackling in the flame, inly shuddered as he thought of everlasting fires.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
Example Sentence:
1  The embers of that effort can be seen still crackling in Wright's audacious adaptation of that most classic of Russian novels: Anna Karenina.
2  The place was pitch black, our feet creaked and crackled over the bare planking, and my outstretched hand touched a wall from which the paper was hanging in ribbons.