Crackle
verb
Make a sound like small explosions or breaking when heated or crushed.
The campfire crackled in the night.
Often appears as...
- crackle with laughter
- crackle with energy
noun
The sound that something makes when it crackles.
We sat by the fire, listening to the comforting crackle of the wood.
Often appears as...
- crackle of fire
- crackle of electricity
noun
A network of fine cracks on the surface of materials.
The old painting had a crackle on its surface.
Often appears as...
- crackle glaze
- crackle finish
Usage tips
Artistic
verb
To have an energetic and excited atmosphere.
The party crackled with energy.
Often appears as...
- crackle with excitement
- crackle with tension
Usage tips
Colloquial
verb
Make a sound like small explosions or breaking when heated or crushed.
The campfire crackled in the night.
Often appears as...
- crackle with laughter
- crackle with energy
noun
The sound that something makes when it crackles.
We sat by the fire, listening to the comforting crackle of the wood.
Often appears as...
- crackle of fire
- crackle of electricity
noun
A network of fine cracks on the surface of materials.
The old painting had a crackle on its surface.
Often appears as...
- crackle glaze
- crackle finish
Usage tips
Artistic
verb
To have an energetic and excited atmosphere.
The party crackled with energy.
Often appears as...
- crackle with excitement
- crackle with tension
Usage tips
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Heating Sounds
Use 'crackle' to describe the distinct sound made by things like wood in a fire when they're heated.
I threw another log on the fire and it began to crackle.
Pro Tip 2/3Energetic Atmospheres
'Crackle' can express the lively feeling of a place filled with excitement or activity.
The room crackled with the energy of the bustling crowd.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Use
Metaphorically, 'crackle' might be used to describe a person who is very lively or full of energy.
Grandma's eyes crackled with mischief as she told her story.
Pro Tip 1/3Heating Sounds
Use 'crackle' to describe the distinct sound made by things like wood in a fire when they're heated.
I threw another log on the fire and it began to crackle.
Pro Tip 2/3Energetic Atmospheres
'Crackle' can express the lively feeling of a place filled with excitement or activity.
The room crackled with the energy of the bustling crowd.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Use
Metaphorically, 'crackle' might be used to describe a person who is very lively or full of energy.
Grandma's eyes crackled with mischief as she told her story.
Pro Tip 1/3Heating Sounds
Use 'crackle' to describe the distinct sound made by things like wood in a fire when they're heated.
I threw another log on the fire and it began to crackle.
Pro Tip 2/3Energetic Atmospheres
'Crackle' can express the lively feeling of a place filled with excitement or activity.
The room crackled with the energy of the bustling crowd.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Use
Metaphorically, 'crackle' might be used to describe a person who is very lively or full of energy.
Grandma's eyes crackled with mischief as she told her story.
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Light waves, visible and...
So, take a step back and think about all of this for a moment. Even though they seem different, the warmth you feel from a crackling fire is the same as the sun shining on you on a beautiful day, the same as ultraviolet light you put on sunscreen to protect yourself from,
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Where's Amelia Earhart?...
and sank theory is wrong in the days after Earhart's disappearance the speculation begins reports of SOS calls from her radio give the world hope that she is still alive they a night messages alternating between hope and disappointment crackle
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The Hot Zone: Anthrax...
fundamentally bruce ann riker and a microbiologist in the fbi bruce's story is fascinating he's not who he appears to be at all most of the time we are on parallel paths and when we come together it should crackle with the help of hair and
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Illustrating the Beauty...
especially when I was there putting her ashes amidst these little like crackling melting pieces of ice and and then thinking about how do you say goodbye but just put things in perspective for me and helped me move through that
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David Deutsch: A new way...
that the eye only detects light, which we don't perceive. Brains only detect nerve impulses. And they don't perceive even those as what they really are, namely electrical crackles. So we perceive nothing as what it really is.
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Is fire a solid, a...
Sitting around a campfire, you can feel its heat, smell the woody smoke, and hear it crackle. If you get too close, it burns your eyes and stings your nostrils. You could stare at the bright flames forever
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Stunning Moonlight...
coming in off the sea a million sand hoppers snap crackling and popping down on the shoreline on a clear night like this with a moon
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The Gauntlet PIPE Think...
Finally, Hedge’s radio crackles to life with a series of directions. The three dive onto the conveyor and flee for their lives,
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Why should you listen to...
before one takes refuge by a crackling fire. Then it's back out into the storm where there'll be slips and falls on the ice.
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Why do your knuckles...
What's that sound? Depending on whom you ask, the crackle of popping joints is either the sound of sweet relief
Video examples
Light waves, visible and...
So, take a step back and think about all of this for a moment. Even though they seem different, the warmth you feel from a crackling fire is the same as the sun shining on you on a beautiful day, the same as ultraviolet light you put on sunscreen to protect yourself from,
Video examples
Where's Amelia Earhart?...
and sank theory is wrong in the days after Earhart's disappearance the speculation begins reports of SOS calls from her radio give the world hope that she is still alive they a night messages alternating between hope and disappointment crackle
Video examples
The Hot Zone: Anthrax...
fundamentally bruce ann riker and a microbiologist in the fbi bruce's story is fascinating he's not who he appears to be at all most of the time we are on parallel paths and when we come together it should crackle with the help of hair and
Video examples
Illustrating the Beauty...
especially when I was there putting her ashes amidst these little like crackling melting pieces of ice and and then thinking about how do you say goodbye but just put things in perspective for me and helped me move through that
Video examples
David Deutsch: A new way...
that the eye only detects light, which we don't perceive. Brains only detect nerve impulses. And they don't perceive even those as what they really are, namely electrical crackles. So we perceive nothing as what it really is.
Video examples
Is fire a solid, a...
Sitting around a campfire, you can feel its heat, smell the woody smoke, and hear it crackle. If you get too close, it burns your eyes and stings your nostrils. You could stare at the bright flames forever
Video examples
Stunning Moonlight...
coming in off the sea a million sand hoppers snap crackling and popping down on the shoreline on a clear night like this with a moon
Video examples
The Gauntlet PIPE Think...
Finally, Hedge’s radio crackles to life with a series of directions. The three dive onto the conveyor and flee for their lives,
Video examples
Why should you listen to...
before one takes refuge by a crackling fire. Then it's back out into the storm where there'll be slips and falls on the ice.
Video examples
Why do your knuckles...
What's that sound? Depending on whom you ask, the crackle of popping joints is either the sound of sweet relief
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Elvis Mitchell
American Critic
Spending time with Mexican-born writer and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, you'd never guess that he's the filmmaker behind a series of movies known as the 'Death Trilogy.' The way he dotes on his children and talks about his wife makes it clear that he has a crackling passion for life.
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Jerry Saltz
American Critic
Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo.
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Hugh Grant
English Actor
I never meant to be in romantic comedies; it's just what ended up happening. But they are tricky, in a post-1960s sexual revolution way. It was easier when you couldn't have sex scenes: everything crackled very nicely. They're not easy.
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Ernie Pyle
American Journalist
The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later.
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Stephen J. Cannell
American Producer
I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not. I just did it.
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Mark McKinnon
American Businessman
A few words about Sarah Palin: She is one of the most fascinating women I have ever met. She crackles with energy like a live electrical wire and on first meeting gets about three inches from your face.
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Kurt Elling
American Musician
In New York, the drummers rush for a reason - because there's so much energy crackling through everything in that city and so many collisions at a highly accelerated rate.
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Illinois Jacquet
American Musician
The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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Paul Theroux
American Novelist
Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals.
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Christopher Paolini
American Author
I've stood outside my house in Montana looking at the northern lights... crackling against the night sky. To me, that's magic.
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Elvis Mitchell
American Critic
Spending time with Mexican-born writer and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, you'd never guess that he's the filmmaker behind a series of movies known as the 'Death Trilogy.' The way he dotes on his children and talks about his wife makes it clear that he has a crackling passion for life.
Quote examples
Jerry Saltz
American Critic
Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo.
Quote examples
Hugh Grant
English Actor
I never meant to be in romantic comedies; it's just what ended up happening. But they are tricky, in a post-1960s sexual revolution way. It was easier when you couldn't have sex scenes: everything crackled very nicely. They're not easy.
Quote examples
Ernie Pyle
American Journalist
The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later.
Quote examples
Stephen J. Cannell
American Producer
I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not. I just did it.
Quote examples
Mark McKinnon
American Businessman
A few words about Sarah Palin: She is one of the most fascinating women I have ever met. She crackles with energy like a live electrical wire and on first meeting gets about three inches from your face.
Quote examples
Kurt Elling
American Musician
In New York, the drummers rush for a reason - because there's so much energy crackling through everything in that city and so many collisions at a highly accelerated rate.
Quote examples
Illinois Jacquet
American Musician
The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
Quote examples
Paul Theroux
American Novelist
Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals.
Quote examples
Christopher Paolini
American Author
I've stood outside my house in Montana looking at the northern lights... crackling against the night sky. To me, that's magic.
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