How To Use crepitate In A Sentence
- The sixpences do not "bang" in this country: they crepitate, they crackle, as though shot from a Maxim quick-firer. America To-day, Observations and Reflections
- On heating in a closed tube it decrepitates slightly, blackens and gives off water having an alkaline reaction.
- Equator Town for instance, the measures rose and fell and crepitated like the barking of hounds in a distant kennel. In the South Seas
- The rain crepitated against the side of my shell.
- You will take care to open your mouth, crepitate shoo shoo to Band-aid dollop. Archive 2008-08-01
- He also missed the essential semantic component of to crepitate, namely, ` to expell gas noisily, 'regardless of whether as a burp or a fart. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 3
- Kate could hardly remember now the dry rigid pallor of the heat, when the whole earth seemed to crepitate viciously with dry malevolence: like memory gone dry and sterile, hellish. The Plumed Serpent
- As a matter of historical interest, the obsolete crepitate was used in the 19th century, but the term did not specify whether the gas being discharged was gastric or rectal. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4
- The crystals are in the form of small cubes and contain no water of crystallization; some water is, however, held in cavities in the crystals and causes the salt to decrepitate when heated. An Elementary Study of Chemistry
- It crepitates on pressure, it shows again that there is presence of air in the lungs.
