Still pacing, the Taliban soldier puts a radio to his ear but hears only a crackling sound; the Taliban's Radio Shariat goes off the air before sunset.
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In the same spirit, thousands of people continue to embrace wind-up Victrola record players, whose tinny, crackling sound transports listeners back to the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
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From a distance, in the heat of the night, you hear crackling sounds and see the sky light up in a fiery shower of hot white and blue.
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"The flame was no different from any other log, but there was a faint crackle sound that sounds like nice dry firewood, " our tester, Rebecca Markowitz, said.
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At the height of the crescendo the bird breaks off its call and flies upwards onto the branch while producing a " ripping and crackling sound " with its wingbeats.
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The varnished edges may have something to do with the crackling; if both edges of each board are varnished, they could make a snap or crackling sound because the edges might be slightly stuck together.
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A penis is absent in the males, and the birds'skin has a layer about a quarter of an inch thick that is filled with small bubbles of air, which produce a crackling sound when pressed.
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Doctors do not find any specific abnormalities on routine laboratory tests or on a physical examination, except for the frequent presence of crackling sounds ( called rales ) upon auscultation with a stethoscope by the care provider.
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On a hard surface, press the palm of your hand against a pomegranate and gently roll to break all the seeds inside ( you'll hear a crackling sound that stops when all the seeds have broken open ).
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Deterioration of this articular cartilage and resulting abnormalities in the surrounding bone cause the stiffness, pain, crackling sounds and sometimes swelling of joints that are the hallmarks of osteoarthritis, the wear-and-tear form of arthritis that afflicts 16 million Americans.
