CRUNCH in a Sentence

Learn CRUNCH 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.
16 example sentences for CRUNCH, such as:
1. The dog was crunching a bone.
2. Then, do not crunch sugar, and you will live.
3. The pebbles of the drive crunched under his feet.
4. The only sound was the crunch of tyres on gravel.
5. Under her feet the rough grass made a pleasant crunching.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CRUNCH
crunch
 v.  reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
 n.  a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources)
Classic Sentence:
1  Then, do not crunch sugar, and you will live.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
2  They do not eat men, they crunch them; or, magicians that they are, they transform them into oysters and swallow them.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH
3  Almost before I had grasped her meaning there was the flutter of a dress and the crunch of leather boots and Tom and Daisy were back at the table.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
4  The pebbles of the drive crunched under his feet.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
5  Under her feet the rough grass made a pleasant crunching.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  It was chiefly a noise of feet, briskly crunching hither and thither over the sanded floor within.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His
7  The man out of the last house passed on his way home; she heard his footsteps clacking along the concrete pavement and afterwards crunching on the cinder path before the new red houses.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In EVELINE
8  "I am not afraid," answered Sonya's voice, and along the path toward Nicholas came the crunching, whistling sound of Sonya's feet in her thin shoes.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence:
1  The computer will crunch all the numbers to determine the final score.
2  Cost cutting had enabled the organization to survive a previous cash crunch.
3  The only sound was the crunch of tyres on gravel.
4  We have to left cars and crunch through the snow in the dark.
5  They have a pleasing, crisp crunch on the outside, and a seductive, slightly chewy interior.
6  They learned that Lehman Brothers had collapsed in bankruptcy, inflicting billions of new losses on a financial system already rocked by a cratering housing market and a tightening credit crunch.
7  She sucked an ice cube into her mouth, and crunched it loudly.
8  The dog was crunching a bone.