The charcoal flesh makes more vibrant objects — a two-piece yellow bathing suit, red yarn — pop like firecrackers.
For an instant, some parents thought the pops were firecrackers.
Indeed, Mr. Ely's knees popped like firecrackers.
Close by, an army tank was in flames, its own light ammunition popping like firecrackers.
Anti-Mubarak protesters initially rejoiced outside the heavily secured courthouse as firecrackers popped in the background.
In an instant, with a firecracker pop and a puff of smoke, a certain Mr. Applegate (Howard McGillin), a k a Satan, appears at his door and offers just such an arrangement.
As paper dragons danced and firecrackers popped, the developers of a new condominium in Flushing, Queens, crushed a head of lettuce and several oranges on the doorstep of their building.
Yet Mr. Bush, whose temperament in the past had resembled a string of firecrackers popping, simply grinned amicably when Ms. Richards goaded him over the course of the campaign as a "shrub" and a "jerk".
Passengers heard popping noises resembling firecrackers, smelled an odor, and saw the suspect's pants, leg and the wall of the plane on fire.
Romero thought that the pops were from firecrackers and that Kennedy had fallen in fright, but Romero then saw blood spilling onto his own hand and realized what had happened as Sirhan Sirhan, the man with the gun, was apprehended.
Micro-Crackers Strings of tiny firecrackers with pops so high-pitched they can be heard only by dogs.
