Sentence examples for up the crack from inspiring English sources

But in general, when oil prices — as the denominator of this fraction — go up, the crack ratio itself falls.

I flew into Boston yesterday and picked up the crack sports section of The Boston Globe.

"So a really bad life is, like, when your dad teaches you to cook up the crack before he teaches you to read," she told Norberto.

I put it to him that 50 was perhaps not the wisest age at which to take up the crack pipe.

A Philadelphia Phillies spring-training game was on TV, and he glanced up at it every time the audio picked up the crack of the bat.

Nanoclay clusters with the diameter of 10 nm could enhance the mechanical interlocking inside the composites and thus, breaking up the crack propagation.

The danger in going too strong is that it will show up the cracks.

At least, she had hoped, the revenues from Delta Coves would help shore up the cracked, seeping levees around the rest of the island.

Her father fingered the leak and stared out at the land as if he had every intention of coming back and patching up the cracked hose.

But equally, they can be a facade, dressing up the university to look its best, and covering up the cracks in the walls.

It's easy to drive up the cracked driveway to the old spa hotel, almost to the front door, and then stroll along the long, lazy veranda.