The sound of the muskets crackled like thorn burning.

For a long while, the only sound was that of the fire in the fireplace behind her, crackling and popping.

A sound like rifle fire crackled ahead of us and then was lost in the grinding crunch of ice on steel.

A scurrying sound crackled somewhere beyond the ridge and caused his heart to jump.

The sound crackled, then settled into a voice.

The sound of a match being struck against a flint crackled across the phone line.

The sound of musketry crackled across the stream for a while, then died away as both sides took stock of the first attack.

The sound of the punches crackled through the empty arena, and Peter Laviolette, the new coach, did not seem to mind the emotion.

The sound of automatic weapons crackled around the sand dunes where the United Nations troops are encamped.

The sounds from the transceiver crackled clearly in the night.