Sentence examples for a sharp crack from inspiring English sources

Then came a sharp crack from the bush — a branch had snapped off.

Her head meets a sharp corner, her hand hits the wall with a sharp crack.

A sharp crack, and he races out; a dull clunk, and he runs in.

Most of the background research and application has been with regard to the effect of a sharp crack.

We grant him his truth‐from‐on‐high, and feel happiest when his relentlessly bitching girl is finally getting a sharp crack in the face.

The skipper, Chris Dickson of New Zealand, said he heard a sharp crack when the keel was torn from the hull in rough conditions.

However, caution is advised if a crack emanates not directly from the plane surface but from a sharp, crack-like notch instead.

The snap sounds like a sharp snap or crack.

In Henry James's "The Princess Casamassima," published the same year as the Haymarket bombing, the anarchists have a Master, and the fey young bookbinder Hyacinth Robinson gets a dark thrill out of imagining himself no more than a key on a piano, which "would grow generally audible (with a small, sharp crack) for a second" under the Master's playing.

However, the local stress fields in single edge notched tension, SE(T), specimens and pipes, for example, are known to be less severe than those at the tip of a deep sharp crack, resulting in an increased capacity to sustain load and higher toughness.

Eventually, those grooves sharpen to form a mathematically sharp crack.