Sentence examples for hard crack from inspiring English sources

So I sometimes give the spine a good, hard crack, turning one unruly volume into two manageable mini-books.

Continue to cook until syrup reaches hard crack stage (285 degrees on a candy thermometer), about 1 1/2 hours.

Cannes audiences just heard a clean, hard crack: the sound of the Coen brothers hitting one out of the park.

The hard crack heard from the tee when a wayward drive lands on a cart path (best enjoyed when it adds 50 yards of distance).

The song opens with finger-picked guitar arpeggios that sound more like Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler than like the hard crack of a traditional flat-picking guitar player.

Firstly, the temperature at which the sugar coating reaches its optimum "hard crack" consistency is 140C, dangerously hot, so handle with caution.

Once the weather warms up again, water the onions only if you experience a drought and the soil looks hard, cracked, and dry.

Apply hand and foot cream to your hands and feet (obviously) and file any hard, cracked or dry skin away with a pumice stone, PedEgg or file.

In 1997, M nch considered the same scattering problem for sound-hard crack [2], and in the same year, Alves and Ha Duong discussed the scattering problem but for flat cracks in [3].

It was the hardest crack climb in Colorado at the time and there were only one or two harder ones in Yosemite.

Put a candy thermometer in pan; cook until mixture just reaches the hard-crack stage (320 degrees), 20 to 30 minutes.