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Example sentences for: cracking

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Frequenting the surf entailed sun-baking [1910], without fear of the consequences, and shooting [1912] waves, with the ambition of “scraping your nose, after a shoot, on the sand of the beach itself,” or cracking a beacher [1949].
For the past couple of years my family, born of an Alzheimer's-afflicted grandmother, has been cracking wise about who got Gram's gene.
Cracking God's Code
(See Slate's "Cracking God's Code."
The Chinese government is only now cracking down on the trade.