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  • adverb With a crackling sound.

Etymologies

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crackling +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Decades ago, in that faraway postwar world before live sports commentaries were routine, a small boy in Yorkshire would search frenziedly through the ether for radio stations that might cracklingly reveal news of how England's cricketers were faring on the other side of the world in contests against Australia.

    Muttiah Muralitharan: a real sporting king in a world of unworthy princes 2010

  • Shot in 16mm on a micro-budget of $25,000, YESTERDAY transcends its resources, filling every scene with great practical effects, car crashes, ballistics and, most importantly, cracklingly sharp dramatic and comedic performances by every single principal cast member.

    Zombieland, George Romero and Daybreakers Invade Fantastic Fest 2009 | /Film 2009

  • AMC did little to promote this cracklingly brilliant series about Madison Avenue and the male-dominated world of advertising in the early 1960s.

    TV in 2007: Who were the biggest and best? 2007

  • Overhead the flames seized cracklingly on the dry wood and darted little red tongues over the dry surface and a scarlet snake ran out over the carved ceiling.

    The Palace of Darkened Windows Mary Hastings Bradley

  • From it there reached down twin fans of death and destruction: one flaming and almost invisibly incandescent violet which tore at the eyes and excruciatingly disintegrated brain and nervous tissues; the other dully glowing an equally invisible red, at the touch of which body temperature soared to lethal heights and foliage burst cracklingly into spontaneous flame.

    Spacehounds of IPC 1927

  • Beams, rays, and rods of Titanic power smote cracklingly against ultra-screens equally capable.

    Triplanetary 1927

  • Electricity spat cracklingly in our faces, and at our sides steel shafts as big as the pillars of a temple spun in coatings of spumy grease; and through the double skin of her we could hear, over our heads, a mighty Niagaralike churning as the slew-footed screws kicked us forward twenty-odd knots an hour.

    Europe Revised 1910

  • With no mainstream walking culture possible, some of us end up singing dohas to cracklingly crowded and grubby lanes and bylanes in Old Delhi and Chandni Chowk.

    Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views' 2010

  • With no mainstream walking culture possible, some of us end up singing dohas to cracklingly crowded and grubby lanes and bylanes in Old Delhi and Chandni Chowk.

    Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views' 2010

  • Plays about artists who put brush to canvas have proven to be cracklingly alive on stage.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

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