Sentence examples for to crack something from inspiring English sources

Something is going to crack; something is going to explode.

But in the meantime, he'd managed to crack something they'd been working on before their falling out.

(Did Gervais crack something similar at the Golden Globes?).

The coating is designed to crack when something is dropped on it.

Today's gathering isn't about the big issue how to get young people to turn off their laptops long enough to crack open something with a cover.

It could be because Google started to make SSL connections mandatory, making it slightly more difficult to snoop unsuspecting dissidents' email (I'm pretty sure SSL is easy to crack with something like ettercap).

Even if the timing was a coincidence (the chef and Mr. Fanucci say they had been talking about the transition for months), there was no denying that Mr. LaBan's review, which likened a quail dish to "a bird-shaped Bob Evans patty," had cracked something in a chef whose work used to represent "one of the chief glories of French cooking," as Craig Claiborne wrote in The New York Times in 1985.

Gesturing toward the shuttering cameras, Trump even cracked something of a joke to Kim. "They never stop," he said.

I thought it was a good way of dramatically cracking something about him, this character that was true to him, but was also a format that was as innovative as he was.

Give yourself a treat every time you feel you've cracked something.

Perhaps this trauma, combined with the later trauma of having many of his students die in the second world war, cracked something in my great-grandfather's psyche.