Sentence examples for cracking off from inspiring English sources

Witnesses said Shabab fighters had plucked desperate people off buses and taken them to their camp at gunpoint, and recent pictures sneaked out by Somali aid workers revealed skeletal children, their skin cracking off and their entire rib cages visible.

She had devised the technique in the British Museum Reading Room almost a year ago, at a time when her brain was like Guy Fawkes night, ideas cracking off in all directions, dark idiot figures jumping around a fiery junk-heap at the centre".

Since then we've kayaked in the frosty waters surrounding southern Argentina and again in eastern Greenland – the sound of ice cracking off glaciers is something we continue to chase around the globe.

After red-lining the Grand Cherokee's 470-horsepower engine in first and second gear, and cracking off clunky, nail-gun shifts with the slick metal paddles on the wrist-thick leather steering wheel, the 21-year-old slaked the turgid exertion of his right leg and slowed to normal highway speeds.

When she first arrived, she remembers paint cracking off the walls and old school books.

If it were stiffer, the enamel would be cracking off the drivers' teeth.

The boat's stern cracked off.

Upon cooling, the disk was cracked off the pontil rod.

In one scene from the film, Nina's toenails crack off in her toe shoes.

Then the company cracks off a layer in a process it calls "proton-induced exfoliation".

The paddle-shifted transmission cracks off gear changes with absolutely no concern for subtlety or decorum.