crack

crack
01. There is a [crack] in the windshield of my car, so I have to get it replaced.
02. Roger [cracked] his tooth when he bit into a hard candy.
03. The earthquake left large [cracks] in the walls of the building.
04. The children opened the door a [crack], and peered through to where their parents were wrapping Christmas presents.
05. How did that mirror get that big [crack] in it?
06. My son's voice is changing, so it often [cracks] in the middle of a sentence.
07. The boys were peeking through a [crack] in the wall into the girl's change room.
08. We started to walk out onto the ice but stopped when we heard it begin [cracking].
09. You'd better throw that plate away. It's [cracked] and could break any time.
10. Leonard Cohen sang, "There is a [crack] in everything; that's how the light gets in."
11. Benjamin Franklin once said that glass, china, and reputation are easily [cracked], and never mended well.
12. There is a German proverb which observes that God gives the nuts, but he does not [crack] them.
13. In Ghana, there is a proverb which observes that marriage is like a groundnut: you have to [crack] it to see what is inside.
14. I read somewhere that when glass breaks, the [cracks] move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
15. Certain birds push dead insects into [cracks] in rocks to eat later.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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