cracked

Example Sentences

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A mast cracked, and the group lost most of its provisions overboard.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

“I don’t know what’s in that record,” Blige said about “Sunshine” in her 2021 documentary “My Life,” “but it was something in it that just cracked open everything in me.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

He said the team thought it had "cracked it" on Friday, but a pipe coming off on Sunday was time-consuming to fix "and then you lose the weather window".

From BBC • May 17, 2026

Many of Swann’s readers admit a similar skepticism until they cracked her book’s spine and discovered they couldn’t put it down.

From Salon • May 17, 2026

I crunched the hard kernel while I cracked another.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo