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Meanings of cracked off in English

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Usage of cracked off in English
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The fire heated the rock to the point that a Volkswagen-sized chunk cracked off.
Survive!: essential skills and tactics to get you out of anywher...
2
Later, half a square mile of the shell cracked off.
The Sky Is Falling
3
As it arrived there, the branch cracked off the tree.
Labyrinth
4
I cracked off the base so I had the stem.
Life
5
He had a way with women, but cracked off-colour jokes.
The Guardian
6
A rifle fired, and a bullet cracked off the pavement between him and Chesna.
The Wolf’s Hour
7
When a piece cracked off, I felt ashamed, an intruder in the family's grief.
BBC
8
Lead cracked off rock, making small clouds of white powder.
The Fireman
9
She cracked off the ice, re-bound her other foot and headed carefully up the track.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
10
He leaped up for it, grasped the branch, and it cracked off in his hands.
The Wolf’s Hour
11
Suppose they'd cracked off gun or pistol at us.
Jack Haydon's Quest
12
The flow valve cracked off completely as the tank and doctor's body crashed to the floor.
Carrion comfort
13
With a roar that dwarfed the previous fall, a larger section of the mountain cracked off.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
14
This cracked off some of the adhering rock.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian ...
15
Something cracked off her skull from behind.
Night of Knives
16
A piece of masonry cracked off and fell, smaller pebbles of stone following it down into the dark.
The Wolf’s Hour
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
Common