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crepitate

verb as in crackle

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Example Sentences

This was followed by a crepitating volley; a buzz of lead passed overhead.

A dully grinding, crepitating sound came up to the lofty heights of Eagle Crown.

Arrowroot is distinguished by the granules agglomerating into small balls, by slightly crepitating when rubbed between the fingers, and by yielding with boiling water a fine, transparent, inodorous and pleasant-tasting jelly.

From farther off, heard at Equator Town for instance, the measures rose and fell and crepitated like the barking of hounds in a distant kennel.

The years were full, the house was fated, The rotten structure crepitated!

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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