Example sentences for: cracker

How can you use “cracker” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For instance, adrenalin is also the common term in AE (not epinephrine ), though the latter is known; BE bath can be tub in AE but is usually bathtub ; an AE cookie is a BE sweet biscuit , but biscuit is a common alternative term in AE for a dry cracker (Remember Uneeda Biscuits ? They are crackers.); Americans bring up their children, as the British do, but they also raise or rear them; AE has both curtains and drapes , but they are different things: BE uses curtains for what AE speakers call drapes ; AE has both deck chair and beach chair , not, as implied, the latter instead of the former; likewise, AE has dressing gown as well as robe and bathrobe , but a dressing gown is more likely to be somewhat fancier; Americans know many games of solitaire , of which patience is just one; both crayfish and crawfish are used in AE, and it is about time that the old (British) fiction that Americans say railroad for what the British call a railway was put to rest: for at least two generations, one of the biggest companies in the US was called Railway Express .

  • It recounts the misdeeds of "Phantomd," a teen-age "cracker" who infiltrated computers at nuclear-weapons labs, military bases, banks, dams, and major corporations before he was caught.

  • They served us tea in “Klim” tins, and a cracker each.

  • While it is certainly possible that a box of Cracker Jack might be for sale in a remote Central American jungle, I submit that the chances of finding one are no greater than stumbling upon, say, a Zagnut bar.

  • But I did have one question: Why did he and his buddy-boy John eat so often at Cracker Barrel?


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