Sentence examples for cracking around from inspiring English sources

What causes that? A. Both radial cracking (from the stem downward) and concentric cracking (around the stem in interrupted circles) are physiological problems caused when the plants take up too much water too quickly.

There was no quaver, no emotion, no cracking around the edges of what she was trying to convey.

As team-member Ann Daniels explains in this audio recording from the ice they were woken up suddenly in the night by the sound of the ice literally cracking around them.

Participants had taken over the outdoor back bar of the pub for a huge party that appeared to have the dual themes of Abba and Priscilla and the beer was already flowing and the stock whips cracking around a campfire lit to combat the evening chill.

"He was telling me he was scared to death and the ice was cracking around him and he didn't know if he was going to make it to the other side," said Richard H. Nemitz, the agent in charge of the United States Border Patrol station in nearby Marysville, Mich., who questioned the Tunisian.

Bark cracking around injection ports was more pronounced longitudinally.

(The cake will crack around the rim).

That consensus cracked around the time of Ronald Reagan's inaugural speech in 1981.

The cracks around a door can be sealed with neoprene tape to create a tight air seal, Mr. Cooley said.

At the displaced people's camp in the back yard of the United Nations headquarters, children covered their heads as bullets cracked around them.

All NC specimens also showed pullout mode of failure with some signs splitting cracks around the bar only in NC-19.1-10D-LM aNC-19.1-10D-HM-HM specimens at the beam end.