He felt rather than heard the ice cracking beneath his weight.

They must have assumed Teresa was cracking beneath the pressure.

He could hear ribs cracking beneath skin and then the cry of pain.

The stone of the patio cracked beneath my victim's feet.

His voice seemed to crack beneath a mighty weight as he repeated, "I don't have anything."

He could feel the ice cracking beneath him; he rose to his feet.

How about this instead: The leather bindings cracked beneath his fingers.

With a scream of horror they saw the mast cracking beneath them.

A dry, dead branch had cracked beneath his weight.

All around them were new quakes as the ground began to crack beneath them.