Sentence examples for cracking about from inspiring English sources

I got a spade from the toolhouse and began to delve with all my might it scraped the coffin; I fell to work with my hands; the wood commenced cracking about the screws, I was on the point of attaining my object, when it seemed that I heard a sigh from some one above, close to the edge of the grave, and bending down….

There is a limit to just how long one wants to be in intensive contact with a group of guys who remind you of the nervously aggressive jokesters in high school, the ones who were always cracking about masturbation and hair growing in the palm.

And please, no cracks about it being old school!

The bell, weakened by 70 years of use, finally cracked about 1335.

There's nothing cracked about that or about this awe-inspiring show.

There were no mentions of impeachment; no "it takes a village" cracks about Hillary Clinton.

All the novel's offhand cracks about suicide resonate when Raymond makes his crazy move.

The jury heard a gag which Boyle cracked about the Olympic swimmer Rebecca Adlington on Mock The Week in 2008.

In one panel she cracks about the famous poetry critic, "I regret that I wasn't Helen Vendler".

But this local Winchell took a personal dislike to me and made a couple cracks about us.

No more cracks about "plumber's" butt, okay?