A branch cracked; a silver shape moved in the dark.

After an eternity, another branch cracked, this one a little further off.

The branch would likely crack under your weight now, great girl that you are.

Just then somewhere up the slope a branch cracked, and we both heard it.

The branch of a nearby tree cracked and fell heavily to the earth.

The branch cracked in the heat of the fire.

He said that the sound of branches cracking under my weight was a dead giveaway.

Another branch cracked and gave way in the woods with a sound like distant thunder.

Behind them, back toward Route 5, a branch cracked.

An icy wind whined through the trees, and a branch cracked in the cold.