There was an ear-splitting crack, and I caught my breath, and waited.

When the sun came up the next morning, it rose with what Graym heard as an ear-splitting crack.

In an instant the stillness of the night was shattered by the ear-splitting crack of A34's 120mm main gun.

The chair broke in several places, and the screen shattered with an ear-splitting crack.

The housing shattered and came away with ear-splitting cracks.

He'd just slapped in a magazine when he heard the ear-splitting crack of a Masadan firearm.

There was an ear-splitting crack, and Shelley jumped up and away as if he'd been stepped on.

"That wasn't so-" But the rest of his sentence was cut off by an ear-splitting crack.

I remember the ear-splitting crack of the first shot.

It reached the top of its trajectory, paused and then came the ear-splitting crack of a maroon signal.