crack
Example Sentences
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At the crack of dawn, as was her habit, Old Emma started out to the shed.
From Literature
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Oregon theater cracks a joke, and then Amazon pulls “Melania” movie.
From MarketWatch
Around the crack of dawn, a line begins forming at a strip mall in Hyattsville, Maryland, as residents ranging from students to delivery workers and federal contractors wait to sign up for food assistance.
From Barron's
Boonbunchachoke’s strange and funny script is constructed of multiple nesting stories, like how my own vacuum pops out a pert little dustbuster that really digs into the cracks.
From Los Angeles Times
"I'd done a lot of more serious plays at uni but I was always a lover of comedy and decided to give it a crack after I left," she recalled.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.