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Example sentences for "cracker"

Lexicographically close words:
crablike; crabs; crack; cracke; cracked; crackerjack; crackers; cracking; crackle; crackled
  1. At first the boys and girls of the cracker families were engaged for little more than their board; their wages are now better, but they are still low.

  2. He took a cracker and thanked her briefly in a scarcely audible voice.

  3. Thicken with a teaspoonful of cornstarch wet in cold water, or with one half cupful of cracker or bread-crumbs.

  4. Roll each one first in cracker crumbs, then in egg mixed with a little milk, and seasoned with pepper and salt, then again in the cracker crumbs.

  5. Sprinkle the top plentifully with cracker crumbs and brown sugar, or brush it with egg.

  6. There are varieties of plain and fancy cracker biscuits which can be used in the place of cake.

  7. Cracker crumbs give a smooth surface and are better for oysters than bread crumbs, but for most things bread crumbs are preferable.

  8. Grated Parmesan cheese may be passed with clear soups, dice of fried bread with cream soups, and toasted cracker biscuits with any kind of soup.

  9. Chop them fine, and add to the minced meat one cupful of bread or cracker crumbs and, if convenient, a little chopped boiled ham or tongue, and a few lardoons of pork.

  10. Pa is a cracker jack on golf; he has friends in New Jersey who are fine players.

  11. It's a cracker jack car, just let me tell you.

  12. She's a cracker jack; she's got the beautifullest hair yer ever saw.

  13. Dip in egg, then in cracker crumbs, fry very quickly in hot butter.

  14. Dip the hollowed piece of bread in the beaten egg, sift the pulverized cracker over it, and fry in the dripping, or lard and butter, to a delicate brown.

  15. Moisten it well with rich milk or cream, then stiffen it slightly with bread or cracker crumbs.

  16. Put them into the milk and cocoanut, which should be first allowed to get quite cool; add the cracker and nutmeg, turn the whole into deep pie plates, with a lining and rim of puff paste.

  17. Mix and mould it into little balls, roll in raw egg and cracker crumbs, and fry in a spider the same as frying eggs; fry a light brown on both sides.

  18. Sprinkle over them salt and pepper, then dip them in beaten egg and cracker crumbs, and fry in drippings, or hot lard and butter mixed.

  19. Cut a slice of fat bacon into the smallest dice, add four of these to each shell, strew over the top a thin layer of cracker dust; place a piece of table butter on top, and bake in the oven until brown.

  20. Some prefer to roll oysters in corn meal and others use flour, but they are much more crisp with egg and cracker crumbs.

  21. Clean them well, season, and fry in egg batter, or dip in beaten egg and fine cracker crumbs, the same as oysters.

  22. Select the large ones, used for frying, and first dip them in beaten egg, then in either cracker or bread crumbs and cook upon a fine wire gridiron, over a quick fire.

  23. Season the oysters with pepper and salt, then dip each one into egg and cracker crumbs rolled fine, until it will take up no more.

  24. I'll see Si and his father off safely, and then gether up a crowd of other convalescents, and come back and clean the rebels off your cracker line.

  25. I'll jest lay by here, and go into Convalescent Camp for a few days, and then go back to the front with a squad, and help clean up our cracker line.

  26. We are all getting along very well, especially since Grant came up and opened our cracker line.

  27. No sufficient charge being brought against the Cracker (he wisely slipped a five dollar bill into the hands of Stubbs), he joins his good wife and goes on his way rejoicing.

  28. A great noise was the result, and the guard, with their accustomed zeal for seizing upon the innocent party, dragged up the weaker (the Cracker and his wife) and let the guilty go free.

  29. The cracker looked him over, and then grinned.

  30. If he gets faint, I'll hand him a cracker box to open.

  31. Nick, reaching out and possessing himself of the cracker bag, so as to be ready to do his duty by his system.

  32. Howard Byng was the Georgia Cracker again, grim, determined and terrible.

  33. You may not know exactly how a Georgia Cracker sticks to his friends.

  34. He grew into the fierce Georgia Cracker again, whom I had seen stand up and offer to fight a whole camp of rough surveyors--but more intense if it were possible.

  35. How would I feel goin' to the Purdues, with my Cracker talk and swamp ways?

  36. He stood still near me, his face twitched and again there gathered in his eyes that fierceness of the Georgia Cracker when enraged, his hands seemed in readiness to tear me to pieces.

  37. Do you 'spose I'm going to let any damn Cracker moonshiner get a drop on me with a long John, when I got a gun down here that shoots a dozen times while he's loadin'.

  38. Jake rushed at Byng bellowing like the king bull of a herd, but the Cracker boy stood his ground with chin slightly elevated, his jaws set until a knob showed on the lower angle.

  39. He came bounding through the otherwise silent turpentine forest dragged along by a little gray mule, hitched to a sledlike affair, shouting Georgia Cracker profanity easily heard a mile away.

  40. But, Wood, I'm only a Cracker now, used to the country.

  41. For a moment I thought the matter would get by amicably, but another flood of profanity from big Jake and aimed directly at the Georgia Cracker brought the tension to the breaking point.

  42. You know Cracker moonshiners as well as I do, maybe.

  43. An' I'll git rid of my Cracker talk, will I?

  44. Some men came along and said, 'See the Cracker with a cryin' jag.

  45. But the safe-cracker came running down the middle of the room, yelling.

  46. Abruptly above the safe-cracker towered the fantastic form of their forgotten enemy, reaching for them, one hand still to its head.

  47. There's a big green and white striped tent set up for the judges at the home plate, and banked around that on either side was the traps and carts and bubbles of some of the crispest cracker jacks on Mrs. Astor's list.

  48. He was draped in a black and white checked suit that you could broil a steak on, with the trousers turned up so's to show the openwork silk socks, and the coat creased up the sides like it was made over a cracker box.

  49. This she deposited upon the table and sat down to help Ann with the nuts; for there were both the nut-cracker and the little hammer that accompanied the wooden nut bowl in which Ann was putting the nuts.

  50. A few minutes before serving dip them one after another in 2 eggs beaten as for an omelet; then in crumbs of rolled cracker made very fine and fry them in very hot lard; not too many at a time.

  51. Butter a pan thoroughly and dust well with cracker flour, and put a row of apricots or peaches on the bottom of the pan.

  52. Take 2 dozen ears of green corn well-filled, but young; grate or pound the corn, and add 1 pounded soda cracker and a little salt.

  53. Once the cracker skeleton is thus formed, he gives it an extra roll or two down the bench for good measure, slides it off the nail into a basket, and has another started before you realize what he is about.

  54. Even as I write the temple bells, the drums, and those peculiar jig-time horns are setting up a discordant hubbub in the courtyards, while at intervals a big cracker sends me springing into the air with a start that fearfully tries my nerves.

  55. You are a keen critic, especially if you can put wit as a cracker on your whip; you can make people feel little and mean if they are so, and when you are vexed can say very sharp things.

  56. Poll, was quite used to being thus trusted, and stepping majestically out, he perched himself on the shapely shoulder of the young girl, and picked the cracker from its dainty resting place.

  57. You see he is afraid I will get hurt every 4th of July, and he told me if I wouldn't fire a fire-cracker all day he would let me get four dollars' worth of nice fire-works and he would fire them off for me in the evening in the back yard.

  58. So I got the thing well started, and left special word with the foreman, a cracker named Sharpe, to be sure and not can the claws, then I went off to New York to enjoy myself.

  59. You had no business to trust an affair where your honour was pledged to an incompetent cracker foreman, and go to New York on the company's money, even if you did think you would earn the money to pay it back.

  60. Sandy Joyce with unusual humility--possibly the result of his encounter with Birdie--was crouching on an upturned cracker box.

  61. He's hunted out James with no more thought than he'd use firin' a cracker on the 4th o' July.

  62. When all are seated, put the cracker plate on your tray and pass, going always to the left.

  63. No hanging around my cracker barrels," she told herself, although there was not, and likely never would be a cracker barrel in the Whatnot Shop.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cracker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    backwoodsman; biscuit; bone; clack; clapper; cracker; cricket; dust; firecracker; fireworks; forester; frontiersman; horn; mountaineer; mummy; parchment; piny; rattle; sinker; siren; snapper; stick; wafer; whistle; woodsman