How to Use crackerjack in a Sentence

crackerjack

noun
  • Despite the deer’s unimpressive size, the shot itself was a crackerjack.
    — Alice Jones Webb, Field & Stream, 13 June 2024
  • At the ready is a crackerjack team that blends deep expertise with warm hospitality.
    — David Dickstein, Oc Register, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Peanuts, popcorn and crackerjack, what’s more American than a baseball game on a summer night?
    — Petula Dvorak, The Denver Post, 25 June 2019
  • Above all else, the Texas journalist and author is a crackerjack storyteller.
    — Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 22 July 2024
  • Smiley’s striking self-possession, even as a child, may owe much to her own mother, a crackerjack journalist.
    — Joan Frank, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
  • If peanuts and crackerjacks are more your speed, catch a Madison Mallards game at Warner Park on the city's north side.
    — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2023
  • Backed by a quartet of crackerjack touring members, the duo opened the show on a high-tech stage filled with flashing, oversize television sets and the glitz kind of felt off brand for the guys.
    — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 26 July 2025
  • All of the four lead actors in King’s crackerjack ensemble get multiple chances to feast on such brilliant dialogue, and all of them make the most of it.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 18 Jan. 2021
  • More crackerjack soloists and small ensembles were recorded at Capitol Records, and a full orchestra at Sony.
    — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Even given a crackerjack team, one wonders if there’s a reason previous cool queens like Kirsten and Julia couldn’t get the Jar green lit.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026
  • View this post on Instagram bought myself some peanuts, crackerjacks, a hamburger, and sipped bubbly while dancing with my girls to a few of our fav country music artists.
    — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 6 Jan. 2020
  • His crackerjack timing turns decent jokes into laugh-out-loud hilarious ones, and his puppyish sweetness keeps Chris endearing at his worst.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2024
  • Ron Howard’s crackerjack cave rescue drama has been chugging along since its unceremonious, late-summer release.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Or for Loki, which slumped significantly in its second (and seemingly final) season, but might be able to ride on the fumes of its crackerjack first installment.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2024
  • But here, too, Richardson regularly makes funny scenes funnier with a silent squint of bafflement or a comment muttered under his breath with crackerjack comic timing.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 June 2022
  • Combs’ crackerjack team of attorneys gave him a robust defense, cross-examining witnesses to the point of admonishment from the judge for alleged bullying.
    — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 2 July 2025
  • Now appearing in past tense, the Worried pilot introduces Jules and Poppy, along with a crackerjack cast of comedians.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Above all else, Winkler is a crackerjack researcher, deftly laying out the myriad questions, arguments and mysteries swirling around Shakespeare.
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
  • For one of Oregon’s most prolific playwrights, and a crackerjack interpreter of exigent issues, this is a disappointing dabble in the wrong direction.
    — oregonlive, 16 May 2023
  • Reboot is a show that is going for actual, out-loud laughs and very often gets them — thanks to clever writing, a crackerjack cast and a cheerful willingness to go for the broad humor of, say, an avalanche of popcorn (albeit with a knowing wink).
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The latest issue of tED Magazine focuses on succession with a series of crackerjack articles.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
  • So Company Retreat is less a show about the choices Anthony makes than the ones he’s been very carefully manipulated into making by a crackerjack cast and crew.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The most obvious standout is Cook, who combines the square-jawed looks of a superhero with the crackerjack comic timing and nimble facial expressions of an Alan Tudyk character.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Factor in issues related to ego — few artists will risk ceding the spotlight to a crackerjack support cast, let alone fork over a bigger cut of their paycheck to compensate extra personnel — and the notion practically becomes a nonstarter.
    — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2025
  • Baseball No sport is more closely associated with spring in America than baseball, and the sport’s healing quality means that the return of peanuts and crackerjack will be a key milestone in the coming of normalcy.
    — Victor Mather, New York Times, 1 May 2020
  • Forbes put its crackerjack team of fictional wealth investigators to the task of calculating Logan Roy’s net worth, estimated at roughly $18 billion.
    — Lisette Voytko, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2021
  • For more than a century, opening day in Washington afforded presidents an opportunity to mix with their constituents by tossing out the ceremonial first pitch, chomping on peanuts and crackerjacks and voicing an opinion about an umpire's call.
    — chicagotribune.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • That’s some crackerjack dealing from president of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto, who has always been an aggressive trader but has also been limited through the years by a stingy ownership group that has capped the Mariners’ payroll.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Director Kari Ringer, who also musical directed, has assembled a crackerjack cast; not easy when her performers have to act, sing, proficiently play their instruments and essentially impersonate iconic figures — but not in a cheesy or ironic way.
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Lydia Millet, Atavists Three judges—a crackerjack panel, featuring the authors Ling Ma and Benjamin Dreyer as well as the Chicago librarian Stephen Sposato—will select the winner at a private ceremony in March.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026

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