cracking

Sipping their morning coffee, cracking open the newspaper, telling that old story they’ve told too many times.

In another sign the professionalism of the gang is being taken seriously, a specialist police unit with a "high success rate in cracking high-profile robberies" has been tasked with tracking them down.

In the past decade, Chinese restaurants have started cracking into the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list and winning Michelin stars.

Beijing has been cracking down on excess capacity in some sectors to rein in “disorderly” competition and price wars.

Del Toro delights in the kinetic gusto of the tale, the grotesquerie of cracking limbs and blood sloshing about Victor’s shoes.