Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: cracks
IPA transcription: [kɹ'æks]
Pronunciations of cracks
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Usage examples
  • We passed hundreds of seals at the various cracks.
  • The words came out, interrupted by peals and cracks of thunder.
  • I gazed at the naked, cheerless wall, seamed and rent with cracks along its sallow width.
  • You want to crush me to death; so just go down yourself and look after the cracks and refts in the rock, and I'll stand up above.'
  • We were looking into a mean little yard, with on one side a high curving wall, evidently of great age, with bushes growing in the cracks of it.
  • But he makes tremendous exertions, whipping his tail in under the peat-bank, while with his hind paws he seeks for support in clefts and cracks.
  • After the lapse of ten or fifteen minutes, the green rind embrowns and cracks, showing through the fissures in its sides the milk-white interior.
  • In such situations, rooted in narrow cracks or fissures, where there is scarcely a handful of soil, it is frequently over eight feet in diameter and not much more in height.
  • I only intended to go a short way, but on reaching the snow above the uncovered hills of our Cape I found the surface so promising and so free from cracks that I went quite a long way.
  • So the rock-house they were making was tumbled about in the dirt, and the rolling pebbles knocked the corners off, and the mud worked its way into the cracks and destroyed its beautiful whiteness.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording 1968 Illinois earthquake, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Ceremonial ship launching, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Yosemite National Park, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Titan (supercomputer), License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Oberon (moon), License CC BY-SA 4.0