It was the coarse sand crunchingunder his boots which aroused her.
Her sound old teeth did not stop crunching the kernels as Sheila went out of the barn.
He stretched himself out, a saffron blotch on the white, and hugged his treasure, crunching away persuasively to convince us that the clock was wrong and it was still only dinner time.
The beating of the waves against the boat's side came gently under the rasping, crunching complaint of timber against timber in combat.
Most had thrown themselves down on the floor upon their bellies, like wild beasts devouring their prey, reaching into their plates with their hairy claws, crunching the food in their jaws as they talked.
The black stallion was loose; with crunching jaws he had fastened on the arm of Shandy, in the corner of the stall, and was trying to pull the boy down that he might trample him to death.
The sound of wheels crunching the gravel, with a sudden stop at the porch, had come to their ears.
The black surface of the river was shot with silver, and the ripples broke with a crunching grinding sound on the frozen banks.
The horses started, and the carriage rolled away with subdued crunching of wheels unto the purple evening dusk.
Leo walked as softly as the crunching gravel and his own vigorous footsteps would allow, towards the light.
Toto, still concealed behind the clump of ferns, heard the noise of a violent struggle; then came several short squeaks; then a crunching noise; and then silence.
Tignol closed the iron gate carefully behind him and walked down the graveled walk with as little crunching as possible.
And almost as he spoke, which seemed like a good omen, there came a clang at the iron gate in the garden and the sound of quick, crunching steps on the gravel walk.
A strong step crunching the path stopped the conversation, and presently there appeared the figure of Tarboe.
He closed on it till he felt it crunching in his own and saw that the face of Barode Barouche was like that of one in a chair of torture.
Even as he turned toward my hand to seize it, even as I waited to see, rather than feel, the crunching of my senseless arm, his head drooped.
I seemed to feel the crunching of the boat's timbers in those awful jaws, and I must have swooned in looking forward to my own terrible fate.
It was a crunching of heavy feet, punctuated now and again by the clattering of a displaced stone.
He threw off his pack and went into the rush-grass on hands and knees, crunching and munching, like some bovine creature.
The company of which Doctor Steck was superintendent seemed to have found the treasures, however, for in their mill half a dozen stamps were viciously crushing and crunching the rock brought down from the mountains above on mule-back.
All at once I heard some voices; and I almost went into a fit when I heard footsteps crunching nearer and nearer in the sand.
He could have sworn that he heard real steps this time--a soft cautiouscrunching in the snow very near his head.
As a result both were exceedingly startled when they heard a huge snort and a great crunchingin the deep snow close beside them.
It was an enormous creature of its kind, drawn by hunger to the scraps of the camp-fire feast; and it was this animal, as it cautiously inspected the camp, that the young hunter had heard crunching in the snow.
There came distinctly to his ears a light crunching in the snow.
She pulled the door on to the catch behind her and went crunching the gravel to the gate.
At that instant the rear of the car settled with a crunching sound.
The sleeping car swayed giddily from side to side as it moved slowly forward with a grinding, crunching sound.
Redmond silently followed him and together the two men stepped out into the crisply-crunching hard-packed snow.
He felt an inexplicable impulse to cry out a warning to that ludicrous figure, whose crunching moccasins were now the only sounds that broke the uncanny stillness of the night.
But he was sober now; and he paced up and down the neglected garden beneath a chill October sky, crunching the fallen leaves under his feet, with his arms folded and his head bent, thinking of the barren future.
They heard his feet stealthily crunching the frozen stuff across the roof.
The crunching began again: it was heard down by the very edge of the eaves.
After dinner as they were sitting in silence on the porch, each measuring the force of this blow which they had expected yet had always hoped to ward off, the crunching sound of a bicycle was heard on the quiet country road.
From the direction of the station came people with parcels and hand bags and presently there was heard the welcome sound of carriage wheels crunching over the stones.
Just then the projectile rolled over slightly with a crunching noise, and I hear the thud of a heavy muffled blow on the doctor's end.
I could hear only the low, regular breathing of the doctor as he slept, and the slight crunching of Two-spot on his bone.
There was a crunching of wheels on the gravel, a sound of hurried farewells.
Just then there was a movement below, a crunchingof the gravel, as though of a horse growing restless, impatient of standing.
Though six harpoons were sunk into his body and he was dragging 300 fathoms of line, he was still in fighting mood, crunching oars, kegs, and bits of boat for more enemies to demolish.
It was chiefly a noise of feet, briskly crunching hither and thither over the sanded floor within.
The hansom had come to a sudden stop, and outside there was a confused sound of shouting with the crunching of wood and the scraping of wheels.
Soon a second landing was made, this time upon soft, rich soil, instead ofcrunching sand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crunching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
