The inner seating area sank by four inches, and some seats fell through gaping cracks.

Parts of it dropped into the gaping cracks and only a few of his race managed to survive.

A gaping crack appeared and a section of wall fell away some 300 yards to Rael's right.

By several measures, however, it appears that a more appropriate image than bumps would be gaping cracks that children are falling through.

I moved from the window and stood over a gaping crack in the floorboards and listened hard.

To drive home their point, a gaping crack has been cut through the set's floor to symbolize the crumbling of prewar German society.

Sporadically, the surface was cut through by a gaping geometrically regular crack.

She and Dood were kept busy for a time creating barriers to close gaping cracks in the windward walls.

The boards were nailed to huge cross beams set every 9 feet, and gaping cracks showed between them.

Where this happens, the crust may actually break, gaping open in long, narrow, slot-like vertical cracks.