Sentence examples for crepitate from inspiring English sources

A number of species crepitate — that is, pop open their wings, like a lady with a fan, except that these aren't ladies.

Words such as "tuff" (a volcanic rock), "crepitating" (the sound of grasshoppers) and "manifesting heterozygotes" (something to do with albinism) bristle in this text, making it much like a walk through a cactus field.

The morning after my father died, she got out her old albums from the 1970s and early '80s — fat, crepitating affairs with gilded vinyl covers in turquoise and maroon, featuring page after page of fading Kodak snapshots of the family that she and my dad had raised together.

One was to dispose sounds in "clouds of points", crepitating bursts of pizzicato strings and wind: mass events whose detail is random but whose overall shape can be grasped by the ear.

The house crepitated around us.