How to Use crack into in a Sentence

crack into

verb
  • Tough to crack into the top 100.
    — Patrick Snell, CNN Money, 21 Jan. 2026
  • This trio of stars has all cracked into the big leagues, but the Red Sox's system is still loaded.
    — Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Even with the seats ripped up in rows and the bleachers bent and cracked into pieces along the lower part of the bowl as the dismantling and sell off gets underway, the place just emanates history.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Each nation, according to the doc, wants to be the first to crack into extraterrestrial technology to reverse-engineer it for human use.
    — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Inside Tony’s Philly Steak across South Halsted, sunlight barely cracks into the dining room beyond the signage.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Repping Alabama's colorful Gulf Coast, Orange Beach cracks into the top 10.
    — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Dec. 2025
  • As bigger studios tend to avoid launching films during Super Bowl weekend, several new releases from independent distributors managed to crack into the list of top earners.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The question is most relevant in Marion County, containing Indiana's largest concentration of non-white voters, who would under this map proposal be cracked into four new districts that include large swaths of rural areas.
    — Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 4 Dec. 2025
  • An inside, off-the-wall slant on independent filmmaking, this dark and daffy movie — the Grand Jury Prize winner in the Dramatic Competition — should be a winner on the art-house circuit but seems unlikely to crack into mainstream venues.
    — Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 13 Jan. 2026

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