Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: crackling
IPA transcription: [kɹ'æklɪŋ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: crackle, crackling, crepitation
    Meaning: the sharp sound of snapping noises
  • Synonyms: greaves, crackling
    Meaning: the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered
Usage examples
  • The load quivered, and from under the runners arose a crisp crackling.
  • "Frederick--" she tried to say; but no sound came, or if it did the crackling of the fire covered it up.
  • The fire was already burning up, crackling merrily, and sending spurts of blue, pungent smoke into the room.
  • Fortunately he was near the top, and Francesca came down the pergola to pilot him indoors, and having shown him where he could wash she put him in the empty drawing-room to cool himself by the crackling wood fire.
  • When we crowded joyfully round a crackling, sparkling wood-fire, even while our faces glowed with the intense heat, cold shivers were creeping down our backs, and sudden draughts from an opening door set our teeth chattering.
  • Can you not see her sitting by the great chimney-place, filled with its roaring, crackling logs, in her quaint, short-waisted dress, knitting away steadily, and puckering up her rosy, dimpled face over the strange twists and turns of that old stocking?