The crepitant woods of the Deep South were foreboding enough in daylight, the Spanish moss stringing down from the oaks like the disemboweled spirits of ghosts. ❋ Unknown (2009)
For the following hour, we pursued this occupation with silent intensity, the quiet of the room broken only by the dry, crepitant rustle of the turning pages, and the occasional muttered complaint from my companion, who periodically avowed that he would “sooner be wrassling a passel of wildcats than wading through all this infernal writing.” ❋ Harold Schechter (1999)
The upper lobe was crepitant, though infiltrated with carbon into the interlobular cellular tissue. ❋ Archibald Makellar (N/A)
On examining the chest with the stethoscope, the crepitant ronchus was heard in the upper part of each lung. ❋ Archibald Makellar (N/A)
The middle lobe was crepitant, though soaked with black fluid; several impacted lobules were scattered throughout its substance. ❋ Archibald Makellar (N/A)
The first warning she was given was a sudden impact on a high branch of an oak-tree a yard or two from where she stood, and the falling to earth, delayed by the thick crepitant layers of green-gold, sun-soaked leaves, of a cricket ball. ❋ Rebecca West (1937)
They looked solemnly into the crepitant blaze of the new fire. ❋ Rebecca West (1937)
"It's a puzzle with three sides to it," he thought, as he descended the crepitant stairs, "The Bookshop, the Octagon, and Weintraub's; but that book seems to be the clue to the whole business." ❋ Unknown (1918)
(The planets rush together, uttering crepitant cracks) Rien va plus! ❋ James Joyce (1911)
"The unction of my deep damnation abide with ye, my children, now and forevermore!" he chanted, showering sparks from crepitant finger-tips; and bounded lightly into the elevator. ❋ Louis Joseph Vance (1906)
A huge, leathery bat, suspended upside down in the far corner, cheeped with dry, crepitant sounds of irritation. ❋ George Allan England (1906)
The crash no longer rolled afar, but cracked close to the ear, hard, crepitant. ❋ George Douglas Brown (1885)
The swelling is somewhat soft, diffuse, not painful, more or less fluctuating, and after a few days becomes crepitant under the pressure of the hand. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)
The crepitant râles and tubular murmurs of pneumonia are heard on the sides of the chest if the pneumonia is peripheral, but in pneumonia complicating influenza the inflamed portions are frequently disseminated in islands of variable size and are sometimes deep-seated, in which case the characteristic auscultory symptoms are sometimes wanting. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)
Towards morning a coolness like dew fell from above, with here and there a dropping twig or nut, or the crepitant awakening and stretching-out of cramped and weary branches. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
The smiles went down, under a swift, bitter little cloud, and the hard twist came into her face with the inward pinching she was giving herself; and all at once there crackled out one of her sharp, strange questions; for it was true that she could not do otherwise; everything was sudden and crepitant with her. ❋ Unknown (1865)
Ian sought it in silence with God; she in crepitant intercourse with her kind. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
The whole central area beneath the scapula and humerus not occupied by muscular attachment, is filled with this easy-moving, apparently gaseously distended, crepitant, areolar tissue over which the fore legs glide on the chest wall as freely as if the parts were a large, well lubricated joint. ❋ John Victor Lacroix (N/A)
[EEW]! You [just] crepitated [in my face]!!! ❋ Ninde (2005)
My [Rice Krispies] [crepitate] every [morning]. ❋ Gofishgo (2007)
Mary: "[The sky] is a lovely [shade] of blue today"
[Crepit]: "The sky isn't blue it's green" ❋ -Lesley-Baby- (2019)
Lord [Windemere] and Paul [Boomer] once had a famous crepitation [contest]. ❋ Bumkicker Slade (2005)
