How To Use Crackling In A Sentence
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The only clanger was the crackling, one half of which was flabby and inedible.
Lancaster's 10 best budget restaurants, pubs and cafes
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What's more, the mountain was haloed by phosphorescent blue bands of some sort of energy crackling all around it.
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Bouchons were originally wine bars where the local silk workers or passing stagecoach drivers could fill up on a simple, hearty cuisine that was based on fresh local products -- mostly pig in the form of andouillette, fried crackling, tripes, petit salé -- and lots of the local wine among like-minded souls, enjoying their brief moment of freedom amid laughter and loud, boisterous behavior.
Jamie Schler: A Side Trip to Lyons: Le Bouchon
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She got up and went over to the fire crackling and spitting nearby.
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Instead, all the clifty defiles of the ranges were filled with the roar of flames and the crackling of burning timbers as town after town was given to the firebrand, and the homeless, helpless Cherokees frantically fleeing to the densest coverts of the wilderness, -- that powerful truculent tribe!
The Frontiersmen
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Several small fires were crackling away and shelters were slung between trees.
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It was relaxing to have just the fire and the crackling sound.
The Sun
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The cold white light blazed and the trees were very old and the bark of them was a crackling silver and a lurid darkening red.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cold white light blazed and the trees were very old and the bark of them was a crackling silver and a lurid darkening red.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the dark days of winter it is comforting to feel the warmth of crackling logs in an open fireplace or a wood burner.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you use a more sensitive detector, such as a radio receiver, you will hear crackling sounds.
The Harper Dictionary of Science in Everyday Language
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Something crisp and crackling was wrapped around her.
A Plague of Angels
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Something crisp and crackling was wrapped around her.
A Plague of Angels
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The only sound for several seconds was the sound of the fire, spitting and crackling sparks.
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A couple of tracks are iffy, popping and crackling, so I got it cheap.
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The pork was delicious and the huge slice of crackling was something else.
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Belly of pork is the kitchen's star turn, a tender piece of pig scented with the pungent breath of garlic flowers - tube of crackling included.
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Here they are replaced with thin crackling snares and pounding tribal bass drums.
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Again, the meat was tender and its base was covered in a strip of crispy crackling, the top coated in a sage and onion stuffing.
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Remove the skin and fat from the pork and set aside to make the crackling for tomorrow's baps.
Nigel Slater's pork recipes
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Alternatively, we let inert hanging bug zappers slaughter any bug stupid enough to stumble in with a small shower of crackling blue light.
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A fire burned merrily in the hole, crackling brightly with orange and yellow flames.
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It's not everyday you see the grand thespian as a scheming womanizer who will stop short at nothing, save ‘a bit of crackling,’ to revive his stagnant career.
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The roar of the crackling fire drew near and doom seemed inevitable.
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She shaded her eyes and crouched beside him, the fire crackling and sending sparks into the morning air.
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He cantered along in the dark, then heard a sound like a brushfire crackling.
Smithsonian
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With the stadium full of song and din and the air crackling with emotion, the England team invariably find more of themselves.
Times, Sunday Times
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He nods towards a phalanx of priests nursing beer tankards, swaying dreamily to the white noise of the band crackling through the speakers.
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A welling, rising, towering rage roared straight up out of the core of Cynthia Maidstone, filling her with a cold, crackling energy so intense she felt that she could point her fingers and chill lighting would coruscate from their tips.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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As this incantation proceeds, small flickering tongues of fire start forth on every side; they soon rise higher and higher, roaring and crackling until, as Wotan disappears, they form a fiery barrier all around the sleeping Walkyrie: --
Stories of the Wagner Opera
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Black spindle-legs curled up to meet red-gimleted black faces, donkeys headless and legless, or sieves of shrapnel; camels with necks writhed back on to their humps, rotting already in pools of blood and bile-yellow water, heads without faces, and faces without anything below, cobwebbed arms and legs, and black skins grilled to crackling on smouldering palm-leaf -- don't look at it.
From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War
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Some light crackling noises and loud pops are disorienting and prevent me from giving a higher score.
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She said: 'It was a strange crackling noise and we could hear people above us moving about.
The Sun
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Amethyst flame bloomed, engulfing the ship in crackling light.
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The elves are waiting for us outside, telling stories round a crackling fire.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was silence except for the crackling of the fire.
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It was relaxing to have just the fire and the crackling sound.
The Sun
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A roast seems right somehow, be it a piece of velvety beef or a joint of golden pork with its glistening coat of crackling.
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A crackling log fire burns in the main hall.
Times, Sunday Times
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The book of the feted Sydney restaurant features dishes such as "slow braised Berkshire pig jowl, maltose crackling, prunes, soubise cream perfumed with prune kernel oil" and another that uses 20 varieties of radish and turnip.
The 25 best cookbooks of 2010
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If you use a more sensitive detector, such as a radio receiver, you will hear crackling sounds.
The Harper Dictionary of Science in Everyday Language
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The movie also shows a panoramic view of the mountains, deep chasms and valleys going into oblivion and the sounds of crackling icicles and snowstorms.
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A log fire was crackling and spitting in the hearth.
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There was a crackling sound that was almost fuselike, coming from somewhere on the suspect.
The Town
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As I reached up to press the elevator button, I winced at the crackling pain shooting down from my shoulder along my arm.
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The fall of snowflakes in a still air, preserving to each crystal its perfect form; the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water, and over plains, the waving rye-field, the mimic waving of acres of houstonia, whose innumerable florets whiten and ripple before the eye; the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes; the musical steaming odorous south wind, which converts all trees to windharps; the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames; or of pine logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sittingroom, -- these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
Essays: Second Series (1844)
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Against a ground of yellow-orange edged in blue, the early small-scale gouache White Cracklings features thick black lines angled over groupings of mostly diagonal white marks.
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A crackling log fire burns in the main hall.
Times, Sunday Times
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At first all they could see was a blur, but then a crackling sharp gearwheel emerged from the fuzz, as if being hauled up out of grey sand.
MAKE Magazine
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There was a blast of a c-sharp, a child's cry and the smell of pork crackling on the breeze.
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It was a magnificent display of the phenomenon, and I feel certain that my attention was first attracted to it by the crackling sound which appeared to accompany the motion of the pale flames as they streamed across the sky; indeed, _crackling_, is not the word that properly describes the sound I heard, which was precisely that made by the _flickering_ of blazing fire; and as I have often since read and heard discussions upon the question whether the motion of the aurora is or is not accompanied by an audible sound, I can only say that on this occasion it was the sound that first induced me to observe the sheets of white light that were leaping up the sky.
Records of a Girlhood
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There, with rich velvet Somerset ale, charcoal grilled steaks, and a spitting, crackling inglenook fiercely roasting away their dampness, they gradually returned to humanity.
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I changed my diet a whole back to avoid things I knew to be pure fat like chicken skin and crackling off pork.
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Hearty home-style meals begin with specialties like mofongo (balls of mashed plantains mixed with garlic and bits of crushed pork crackling), alcapurrias (fritters made from a puree of plantains and yautia, a starchy white root related to taro, and stuffed with ground beef), and pionono (sweet plantain fritters stuffed with ground beef).
Chicago Reader
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In front of the crackling fire, Alobar dandled his babies on his knees and at last gave full attention to his lot.
La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
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They had the engine running to keep warm and their radios were crackling.
Times, Sunday Times
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Crackling crisp squid is surrounded by the unexpected zip of ginger, cashews, and papaya.
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By and large, the prominent (and well funded, I might add) expounders of the current ID movement were at one time (not so long ago) what you might call diehard crackerjack-creationists (e.g., believing that a WASP/WASC God more or less snapped his/her fingers, there was a crackling sound, and out popped the universe and its inhabitants in all their current variety and complexity).
The President and Intelligent Design
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The top surface has a unique crackling and it has a beautiful edge decorated with carved gadroons.
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Potts nipped away, unsleeved a brittle record, Beethoven, something traditional, and set the adagio movement from the seventh into slow, crackling motion.
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In the dark days of winter it is comforting to feel the warmth of crackling logs in an open fireplace or a wood burner.
Times, Sunday Times
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There will be a warm, comfortable feeling and a slight crackling sound as the candle burns.
Times, Sunday Times
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The thick hazy air was crackling with diesel fumes as well, and a shantytown stink intruded even into this enclave of wealth.
T2©: RISING STORM
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The only sounds were the crackling fire, and Cattannia's desperate calling.
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He grew terribly bright, as if ghostly images of himself had focused on him, and a crackling nimbus of pure force that glowed a deep gold-crimson surrounded him.
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There is something crackling in the dead air, if not hostility then maybe her quite understandable boredom at having to play show pony.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just looking at that yard or more of succulent flesh is enough to get my juices going, and biting into a roll crammed with shredded pork, sage stuffing and a great wodge of crackling is, I've decided, one of the great joys in life.
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Roast pork, complete with tooth-smashing crackling, and a hearty side helping of bitter greens - puha, if you can find some in your suburban paradise, but a good mesclun and radicchio salad will do.
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Amid crackling gunfire, the truck sets off, disappearing behind a wall before a blast sends up plumes of grey smoke.
The Sun
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His pupils were pinpricks, and the surrounding circlets of frost-blue hummed as if fed with raw, crackling sound.
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When he saw that Madame Delmare was obliged to make an effort to listen to him, he held his peace, and naught could be heard save the innumerable little voices whispering in the burning wood, the plaintive song of the log as it becomes heated and swells, the crackling of the bark as it curls before breaking, and the faint phosphorescent explosions of the alburnum, which emits a bluish flame.
Indiana
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Luminous by lightning far above him were enormous thunderheads, crackling with fury energy and booming with mighty waves of thunder.
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Her postgrad colleagues stared at her from beneath their crackling nylon shirts, their drip-dry, ever-creased Crimplene trousers.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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If you use a more sensitive detector, such as a radio receiver, you will hear crackling sounds.
The Harper Dictionary of Science in Everyday Language
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Just then a loud crackling came over the speakers followed by the loud beating of a drum as the heavy rock music slowly filtered out into the car.
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In the dark days of winter it is comforting to feel the warmth of crackling logs in an open fireplace or a wood burner.
Times, Sunday Times
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And the yard-long pork crackling is totally worth crossing town for.
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And in the Dante Valentine books there was a whole lot of "crackling" of blood and magic going on as well.
"Night Shift" by Lilith Saintcrow
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But everything was unpacked and a fire was merrily crackling, and the smell of the meat cooking set his mouth watering.
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My Dad's voice, thick with scouse, rumbles across the crackling line.
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The wooden beams and ceiling were crackling in the extreme heat.
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Their crackling bad humour left them, but the heaviness of their spirit remained.
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The thunderstorm set the radio crackling.
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They had the engine running to keep warm and their radios were crackling.
Times, Sunday Times
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She told him how she sensed the tension crackling between us on the set.
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She opened her eyes and saw a blazing fire crackling and spitting at the men sitting around it.
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Jian stared into the fire, crackling merrily at him.
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He recalled: 'I could hear a crackling noise and feel the heat.
The Sun
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Last year more than 1.3 million spectators watched the event, providing a crackling atmosphere as impromptu roadside fiestas spring up alongside the special stages.
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It also had a delicious layer of crispy golden crackling attached.
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CRISP PORK BELLY, SWEET PEACH SALSA Ask your butcher to score the skin finely for this, as the crackling is essential.
Tender delights
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The crackling roast suckling pig may divide your table; it's nasty to some, but to others, each bite echoes the sound of maracas.
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He recalled: 'I could hear a crackling noise and feel the heat.
The Sun
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Amid crackling gunfire, the truck sets off, disappearing behind a wall before a blast sends up plumes of grey smoke.
The Sun
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There were lights on, fires crackling, bottles being opened.
Times, Sunday Times
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An old pub with beamed ceilings, smoke-blackened, and a log fire crackling and spitting inside a deep alcove.
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If you use a more sensitive detector, such as a radio receiver, you will hear crackling sounds.
The Harper Dictionary of Science in Everyday Language
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The elves are waiting for us outside, telling stories round a crackling fire.
Times, Sunday Times
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She said: 'It was a strange crackling noise and we could hear people above us moving about.
The Sun
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Apart from the young constable, whose radio was crackling like an egg in a hot frying pan, the front hall was empty.
DEAD BEAT
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But I often warble my native woodnotes wild in my bath while plying the loofah, at the car wheel, perhaps in a sunburst of joy at finding a parking space in Edinburgh and, sometimes, to add a crackling, catarrhal accompaniment to some oleaginous operatic tenor on radio or TV.
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With the stadium full of song and din and the air crackling with emotion, the England team invariably find more of themselves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each bear-related portion of the book is full of zest and life and a kind of crackling energy.
Archive 2006-03-01
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Her postgrad colleagues stared at her from beneath their crackling nylon shirts, their drip-dry, ever-creased Crimplene trousers.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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Crackling clouds of ice obscured the floor and vast red-gold icefalls blocked the only exit.
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In the dark days of winter it is comforting to feel the warmth of crackling logs in an open fireplace or a wood burner.
Times, Sunday Times
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Factory Records are in town and everyone I know is crackling with anticipation.
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I'll never stop eating meat, especially the crackling off roast pork.
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A quadripartite pig plate comprises hot charcuterie in the form of ballottine, loin, and, unusually for a French restaurant, hot crackling.
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Ander sat in the galley, enjoying the crackling, radiant warmth of the stoves, sipping the hot, sweet-spicy beverage that was the favourite of sailors.
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To produce good crackling, the raw skin is scored in close parallel lines right through the fat and down to the flesh.
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He could hear the crackling of burning trees.
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A stuffed boar's head was mounted by a crackling fireplace, surrounded by comfy leather chairs.
Times, Sunday Times
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A crackling wood fire was roaring up the chimney from the large stove in the kitchen.
The Shagganappi
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The thick hazy air was crackling with diesel fumes as well, and a shantytown stink intruded even into this enclave of wealth.
T2©: RISING STORM
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The crackling roast suckling pig may divide your table; it's nasty to some, but to others, each bite echoes the sound of maracas.
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The skin crisps to crunchy cracklings, and the meat melts with juicy tenderness.
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Yet the audacity of the writing, coupled with the crackling energy of the acting, makes this provocative exhibition well worth a visit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Janet's brûlée was equally good with the crispy sugar topping crackling above a creamy smooth dessert.
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The wooden beams and ceiling were crackling in the extreme heat.
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One by one, each was filled by a sphere of rose-gold light, crackling and hissing as arcs of sorcerial lightning arced across them and linked all six in a network of coruscant flame.
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Presently the two crackling sails gybed over with a thud, and the
Swirling Waters
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If you use a more sensitive detector, such as a radio receiver, you will hear crackling sounds.
The Harper Dictionary of Science in Everyday Language
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The former had called, but the conversations had been brief and crackling with tension.
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A loud crackling sound vibrated through the hallway they were in and the bending of metal reached their ears.
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The sounds were described as crackling, and seemed to depend on movements of the arch of the palate.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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In the dark days of winter it is comforting to feel the warmth of crackling logs in an open fireplace or a wood burner.
Times, Sunday Times
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Turn the oven to its highest setting and roast the rind for 10-15 minutes until it turns to a crisp, golden crackling.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sweet sounds of an unplugged guitar and crackling fire mixed with vague cultish lyrics, opiating our young minds with hope and faith.
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The only sound is the crackling of leaves under our feet.
Times, Sunday Times
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Plenty of tender, pink meat, with the original touch of being cooked into crispy crackling on top.
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The only noise besides the birds or the ice crackling along the streambeds is the shushing sound of my feet across the snow.
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The heater hadn't kicked in for quite some time and the room was freezing, so cold he heard ice crackling on the walls, falling from the faucet into the sink, spilling over and chinking onto the marble floor.
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Through the crackling static we hear a radio DJ speaking Taiwanese.
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Crackling clouds of ice obscured the floor and vast red-gold icefalls blocked the only exit.
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I could hear lots of popping and crackling sounds but it was quite relaxing, as other sounds were drowned out and I just had to lie there.
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Her postgrad colleagues stared at her from beneath their crackling nylon shirts, their drip-dry, ever-creased Crimplene trousers.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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He could not hear the flames crackling around him, nor Sorcha calling for him to stop.
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There is something crackling in the dead air, if not hostility then maybe her quite understandable boredom at having to play show pony.
Times, Sunday Times
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Turkey and crackling is a new one on me.
The Sun
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To the English, crackling is a standard part of a meal involving roast pork.
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Is there anything quite so snug and cozy, more redolent of home than a good fire crackling on the hearth?
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Remove skin with a slotted utensil, drain on paper towels, and chop for cracklings.
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There will be a warm, comfortable feeling and a slight crackling sound as the candle burns.
Times, Sunday Times
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Benjamin heard the faint crackling in the undergrowth but took one look at me and gave up any idea of pursuit.
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He smelled like kerosene, Chai tea, and spliff, and incense, and crackling fires.
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The only sound is the crackling of leaves under our feet.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their handsets were busy, crackling with crosstalk and static.
NIGHT SISTERS
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An antique Oldsmobile crawled by, its tires crackling on the sand-covered, tightly packed ground of the flat.
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I started with a crackling salad: cold pigskin with slices of grainy dry apple and some suppository radishes.
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It has crisp, golden crackling and tender, juicy meat.
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His head filled with visions of tender roast pork with crispy brown crackling, he set off down the street.
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Just then a loud crackling came over the speakers followed by the loud beating of a drum as the heavy rock music slowly filtered out into the car.
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It was stone cold within, but there was a pile of cut wood in one corner and soon he had a fire spitting and crackling, dancing weird patterns of red and yellow about the cabin.
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She could hear leaves crackling underfoot as she and her father walked through the mountains in autumn.
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Here was a smart, crackling drama that started out brilliantly, then as it moved along the cracks started to show (painfully unfunny show-within-a-show skits) until Aaron Sorkin resorted to putting his characters in awful, stock situations (Danny and Jordan stuck on the studio rooftop!).
2007 May : Scrubbles.net
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On the first day of the new school year the teachers are crackling with enthusiasm.
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Forty minutes later, you have yourself two gorgeous, crackling boules cooling on the kitchen table.
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I have to look up 'crepitus': 'a peculiar crackling, crinkly, or grating feeling or sound under the skin'.
Times, Sunday Times
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A number of lawn chairs and a canopied swing were encircled around a large, self-dug fire pit, in which a small orange fire was crackling merrily in the afternoon sun.
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The wooden beams and ceiling were crackling in the extreme heat.
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They sat silently for a few minutes, the tick of the clock on the mantle and crackling of the fire in the fireplace now very loud in the silence.
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Suddenly, there was an electric-arc flicker of harsh bluish light and a crackling noise from inside her closet!
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This dinner began with those Crispy Spring Rolls ($15 for two), the crackling wrapper filled with Dungeness crab, calamansi (a sour herb), pea pods, fine herbs and spices.
Jay Weston: Good Evening Vietnam: Red Medicine Is Here
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If you use a more sensitive detector, such as a radio receiver, you will hear crackling sounds.
The Harper Dictionary of Science in Everyday Language
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The fall of snowflakes in a still air, preserving to each crystal its perfect form; the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water, and over plains, the waving rye-field, the mimic waving of acres of houstonia, whose innumerable florets whiten and ripple before the eye; the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes; the musical steaming odorous south wind, which converts all trees to windharps; the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames; or of pine logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sitting-room, these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
XIV. Essays. Nature. 1844
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But Gloag is understood to be furious that the pylons and their crackling, high-voltage cables will be unmissable from the ancient ramparts of the castle.
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Roast pork, complete with tooth-smashing crackling, and a hearty side helping of bitter greens - puha, if you can find some in your suburban paradise, but a good mesclun and radicchio salad will do.
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Split the baps, place a small handful of coriander leaves on the bottom half of each roll, spoon on the carrot slaw, then place a few strips of crackling on to each one.
Nigel Slater's pork recipes
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Gratons, also known as cracklings, were made of pig skin.
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There is a more casual bar, but it is hard to beat the experience of eating in the new Two Sisters dining-room, next to the snug lounge bar with its crackling log fire.
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A big piggy roast with sweet meat and crisp crackling.
Times, Sunday Times
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I stayed out of sight until the twilight took the last of the day and the mosquito-like buzz of ghostly motorbikes continued their dance, primally circling two newly lit crackling bonfires in the center of the field.
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To make cracklings, combine skin and remaining fat in a saucepan with water and place over medium heat to render fat.
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We found the thunder set the radio crackling.
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His adaptation retains the honesty and lyricism of the book but sharpens it up into a riveting confessional stream of crackling, dinner conversation-sharp dialogue.
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With a microphone submerged in frigid waters, composer Ryuichi Sakamoto captured whooshing currents, errant whale calls and crackling glaciers.
A Guide to This Week
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This had a light crackling and a juicy meat expertly balanced with the dark earthy flavours of the pudding.
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As I reached up to press the elevator button, I winced at the crackling pain shooting down from my shoulder along my arm.
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Boatman never knows what's coming next, even as he checks dispatch calls crackling over his radio - a necessary distraction.
The Orange County Register - News Headlines : Top Stories
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Still, once a fire is crackling, it is a warm, snug shelter.
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Parents and kids alike will enjoy the sounds of a crackling campfire at dusk and of birds calling as the sun rises.
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Her hand rose, clenched into a fist, and a brilliant red-gold beam of crackling, coruscating light soared up into the sky and set it ablaze with Imperial flame.
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It didn't take more'n several jiffies for all of us to be inside that old-fashioned cabin, where there was a crackling fire in his fireplace and another fire roaring in his kitchen stove and where there was a teakettle singing like everything, meaning that pretty soon we'd have some sassafras tea.
Shenanigans at Sugar Creek
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In my brief testing on one phone call, the recipient reported degradation in calling quality -- "crackling" -- after the bars receded to none.
Betanews
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If you use a more sensitive detector, such as a radio receiver, you will hear crackling sounds.
The Harper Dictionary of Science in Everyday Language
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They smelled smoke and heard the crackling of the fast-moving fire.
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The guitar returns, its strings seemingly snapped frantically as crackling pebbles fuse into a single shrill noise.
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On the night we visited, the fire was crackling in the grate and there was a nice buzz to the atmosphere - busy but not packed.
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In both the older and newer segments, the mix has some type of background noise, from crackling to hissing to buzzing to high-pitched whines.
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Something crisp and crackling was wrapped around her.
A Plague of Angels
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To Dave it was all magic, a big adventure as he drove a dodgem car by himself for the first time, three minutes with crackling Top 40 tunes and a proud grin on his face.
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Amid crackling gunfire, the truck sets off, disappearing behind a wall before a blast sends up plumes of grey smoke.
The Sun
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[= 'medicine-she makes'] medi - it snapped off, made a crackling sound cine-maker or formulist at the Brush Dance • See also ELK • xoq'eh-na'way [= 'following her-she goes'] the broad: nite: l it is wide, broad, spread fl at; niwhte: l I am girl who accompanies the medicine maker
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The poet considers, the engineer advises, the university teacher concurs and what goes crackling over the short-wave that night is a considered Albanianisation of the jargon.
From the archive, 11 January 1967: Albania on the blink
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I had some good but not extraordinary suckling pig from the rotisserie with that lovely paper-thin crackling you get from the unweaned animal, and I tried some nice chocolatey venison with a too-sour-for-me cranberry compote.
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The griffin roared again, with even more crackling as of concealed fireworks.
The Golden Apple Tree
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CRISP PORK BELLY, SWEET PEACH SALSA Ask your butcher to score the skin finely for this, as the crackling is essential.
Tender delights
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Something crisp and crackling was wrapped around her.
A Plague of Angels
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Bouchons were originally wine bars where the local silk workers or passing stagecoach drivers could fill up on a simple, hearty cuisine that was based on fresh local products -- mostly pig in the form of andouillette, fried crackling, tripes, petit salé -- and lots of the local wine among like-minded souls, enjoying their brief moment of freedom amid laughter and loud, boisterous behavior.
Jamie Schler: A Side Trip to Lyons: Le Bouchon
