CRACK in a Sentence

Learn CRACK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
222 example sentences for CRACK, such as:
1. There's a crack in this cup.
2. A fine crack ran up the wall.
3. There's a crack in everything.
4. The code was difficult to crack.
5. I must fill that crack in the wall.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CRACK
crack
 v.  break partially but keep its integrity
 n.  the act of cracking something
Classic Sentence: (169 in 12 pages)
1  She closed the door except for a crack and tried to make her heart beat more slowly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  Her hand was behind her, still holding the knob, when Honey Wilkes' voice, low pitched, almost in a whisper, came to her through the crack of the opposite door leading into the bedroom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  The Yankees were proving a hard nut to crack but they were cracking at last.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  Not even the crack of a rifle had sounded since sunset and the world seemed far away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
5  Scarlett walked to Melanie's door and opened it a crack, peering into the sunny room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
6  She opened the door a crack and saw Frank leading a heaving, stumbling horse into the carriage house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
7  With the disappearance of the sun, a bitter chill had fallen on the twilight world and a cold wind blew through the dark woods, making the bare boughs crack and the dead leaves rustle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
8  His voice still held a remnant of its wonted cool drawl but beneath the words she could feel violence fighting its way to the surface, violence as cruel as the crack of a whip.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
9  But her hope turned to disappointment when Melly merely opened the door a crack and took the tray.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
10  She patted Aunt Pitty and went swiftly by her to the front door, knowing if she stayed in this room another minute her control would crack.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
11  She quietly opened the dining-room door a crack and peered in.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
12  The outer air, penned between high buildings, brought no freshness through the window; steam-heat was beginning to sing in a coil of dingy pipes, and a smell of cooking penetrated the crack of the door.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
13  These crack specialists, the young scientific fellows, they're so cocksure and so wrapped up in their laboratories that they miss the human element.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
14  But ere I break, yell hear me crack; and till ye hear THAT, know that Ahab's hawser tows his purpose yet.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day.
15  As soon as we entered, he threw a grain-sack over the crack at the bottom of the door.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
Example Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  It is a tough nut for him to crack.
2  It strikes me that he's right a tough nut to crack.
3  Any crack in a car windscreen always seems to be right in the driver's line of vision.
4  I need to crack on with my project work this weekend.
5  He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut.
6  There's a crack in this cup.
7  The code was difficult to crack.
8  The drug is variously known as crack or freebase.
9  He that will eat the nut must first crack the shell.
10  There's a crack in everything.
11  I must fill that crack in the wall.
12  A fine crack ran up the wall.
13  Don't pour hot water into the glass or it will crack.
14  Their mission was to crack into the computer system of a major corporation.
15  The pressure of the water caused the wall of the dam to crack.