Sentence examples for be cracked with from inspiring English sources

The tiles' glassy coating can still be cracked with the push of a fingernail.

But the coelacanth may have the last laugh because its genome — which, at 2.8 billion units of DNA, is about the same size as a human genome — is decodable, whereas the lungfish genome, a remarkable 100 billion DNA units in length, cannot be cracked with present methods.

Oh, and both of these methods can still be cracked, with enough effort.

Although exome sequencing has been used to find the genes for dozens of rare diseases in the past 2 years, this is the first "mosaic" disease to be cracked with the technique, says medical geneticist Dian Donnai of the University of Manchester, U.K. The work should serve as a model for studying other mosaic genetic diseases, she says.

In today's world, where true-crime TV shows like "Forensic Files" prove that decades-old crimes can be cracked with a drop of blood, a speck of saliva or a single hair, Etan's case remains an anomaly.

Most hickory nuts have tough shells that can't be cracked with a standard nutcracker.

Brown rice grain was cracked with a razor blade, and the cracked surface was coated with gold for 90 s using a vaporizer (IB-3, EIKO, Tokyo, Japan) and subjected to a Scanning Electron Microscope (JSM6510LA, JEOL, Tokyo, Japan).

During his interrogation, his sternum was cracked with a baton and with fists.

And what a voice it is: cracked with sorrow, bristling with quiet rage.

Instead, he said the case was cracked with information shared across the Straits of Florida and coordinated by Mr. Sanchez of Movimiento Democracia.

Voters are wondering whether Germany's vaunted rule of law is cracked, with the powerful able to play by different rules.