Crackling is an English word with synonyms like greaves or residue. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Crackling meaning
- Fat that, after roasting a joint, hardens and crispens
- The crispy rind of roast pork.
- A crispy, fried skin or rind, especially of pork.
Using Crackling
- The main meaning on this page is: Fat that, after roasting a joint, hardens and crispens | The crispy rind of roast pork. | A crispy, fried skin or rind, especially of pork.
- Useful related words include: greaves, residue, crackle, crepitation.
- In the example corpus, crackling often appears in combinations such as: the crackling, and crackling, to crackling.
Context around Crackling
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Crackling
- In this selection, "crackling" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pork, chemistry, came, fireplace, noises and fires stand out and add context to how "crackling" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a loud crackling noise coming and additionally the crackling fires of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "crackling" sits close to words such as aadmi, aang and ably, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with crackling
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The result is delectably rich, spicy and sweet, with a crackling edge. (12 words)
A heart-shaped wreath on the front door, with a crackling fireplace behind it. (14 words)
Eight residents were later evacuated after a neighbour heard a ‘loud crackling noise’ coming from the adjoined flat. (18 words)
And while your Christmas tree and tinsel are stored away for next year, your home can still have those warm, cozy "chestnuts roasting on an open fire" vibes with a little help from a crackling fireplace. (36 words)
It’s difficult to imagine a better musical adaptation of Stella “Miles” Franklin’s semi-autobiographical novel than this one, which transposes protagonist Sybylla Melvyn’s crackling energy and bolshie voice into a relatable contemporary figure. (36 words)
The crackling of the compromised flooring reached its veiny fingers to the outside structure and threatened to pull the entirety of the house down upon my body as I trembled in pain. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Additionally, dirt and dust particles can build up inside your headphone jack, causing a poor connection and leading to crackling noises while using headphones.
Additionally, the "crackling fires" of the Bankes Arms pub is another selling point, alongside the well-stocked Studland stores.
Dean lined the pork skin strips onto the tray with even spaces between each one before adding two unusual layers to cover the crackling.
Don’t miss the cazuela de frijoles, a plato tipico bean stew with sweet plantains, meats and chicharron (fried pork crackling) with rice, fried egg and avocado.
If you're cooking a whole joint of pork, your approach to crackling may need to be a little different.
It’s such a potentially chemistry-crackling date place that it did the impossible: it made me nostalgic for years of terrible app dating.
It wasn’t lost on him how many friends and acquaintances whose names came crackling into our conversation were no longer alive.
Once this is up, remove the tray and baking parchment from the crackling and place them back in the oven for a further 20 minutes to turn golden and crisp.
That’s no reflection on the squid but the ribs and slow-cooked belly, accompanied by oriental ketchup, spiced slaw and crackling, was mouth-wateringly tender.
The crackling of the compromised flooring reached its veiny fingers to the outside structure and threatened to pull the entirety of the house down upon my body as I trembled in pain.
The result is delectably rich, spicy and sweet, with a crackling edge.
While the technology has changed, the satisfaction of hearing exactly what I want still exists, even without that sweet, crackling sound of a dusty needle hitting vinyl.
A heart-shaped wreath on the front door, with a crackling fireplace behind it.
And along the way, Madison and a crackling ensemble deliver not only lip-biting tension but also jolting laughs that never make its eponymous heroine the butt of the joke.
And the land around it is as bright and crackling as an O’Keeffe painting: “The sun hangs just above the violet line of the mountains.
And while your Christmas tree and tinsel are stored away for next year, your home can still have those warm, cozy "chestnuts roasting on an open fire" vibes with a little help from a crackling fireplace.
As you can imagine, it tastes pretty good when enclosed in an all-butter puff pastry and sprinkled with pork crackling.
Creator Brad Ingelsby brings together a crackling cast that includes Julianne Nicholson, Jean Smart, Angourie Rice, Guy Pearce, and Evan Peters.
Eight residents were later evacuated after a neighbour heard a ‘loud crackling noise’ coming from the adjoined flat.
It’s difficult to imagine a better musical adaptation of Stella “Miles” Franklin’s semi-autobiographical novel than this one, which transposes protagonist Sybylla Melvyn’s crackling energy and bolshie voice into a relatable contemporary figure.
Common combinations with crackling
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the crackling 10×
- and crackling 7×
- to crackling 5×
- crackling fire 5×
- pork crackling 4×
- crackling with 4×
- crackling and 4×
- crackling as 3×
- of crackling 3×
- crackling chemistry 3×