How to Use crack up in a Sentence
crack up
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It’s not just the two of them who crack up; so does the audience.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Sep. 2021
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But fame and fortune are not all they are cracked up to be.
—Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Apr. 2023
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And both of us would crack up, just laugh our asses off.
—Mary Gaitskill, The New Yorker, 8 July 2019
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And here's Gosling cracking up during the 2015 version of the sketch.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2017
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Every time one of them does this, the other guy cracks up.
—Neil Swidey, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2019
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Brent had cracked up so hard that Pop had to drag him out of the sanctuary.
—Tiphanie Yanique, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2019
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An extra hour of sunlight isn't all it's cracked up to be.
—Channing King, Indianapolis Star, 5 Mar. 2020
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All of them, at some point or another, forced him to crack up.
—Katey Rich, vanityfair.com, 1 Oct. 2017
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The condo that erupted in its place grew a crack up its side the first time the earth shook, and that became our view.
—Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
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The man cracked up even when there was no evident punch line on the horizon.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2024
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Has the show’s success been everything it’s cracked up to be?
—Shane O’Neill, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
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There are shots of the three artists camping it up, with Iglesias cracking up with laughter at the end of the clip.
—Billboard Staff, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2018
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Even the best in the comedy business can't help cracking up on set once in a while.
—Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024
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And those were the scenes where Kieran [Culkin] was famously cracking up on the Zoom.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2023
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According to a recent study, egg count tests aren't all they're cracked up to be.
—Korin Miller, SELF, 12 Oct. 2017
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Still, a play that had the rest of the nation cracking up likely had the Seahawks steaming mad.
—Matt Calkins, The Seattle Times, 17 Dec. 2018
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With that, the couple both crack up in a way that only two people who are already in on the joke would.
—Seth Combs Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2022
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Here's another secret: None of us are all that we're cracked up to be.
—Annie Reuter, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2019
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Is one of London's most legendary hotels all it's cracked up to be?
—Diana Pearl, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2023
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Jay Leno makes his friends crack up with his impressive mid-air stunt.
—Jodi Upchurch, CNN, 13 Aug. 2021
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Luckily the camera was off of some of us who were cracking up.
—Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 30 Apr. 2018
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Plus, having a surgery like the one Dr. Holmes described (known as a labiaplasty) isn't all it's cracked up to be.
—Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 18 Oct. 2018
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Sure, the streets were still cracked up with poverty and inequality and chaos.
—Wes Enzinna, Harper's magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
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The next round of the streaming revolution may be not be all it was cracked up to be either.
—Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
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Russo said as the two former co-hosts cracked up laughing.
—Nihal Kolur, SI.com, 23 Apr. 2018
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As the audience cracked up, Comey smirked, and took another big sip of wine.
—Emily Yahr, chicagotribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
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Maybe customer love isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be.
—Jon Picoult, Forbes, 3 May 2023
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This viral TikTok hack might not be all it's cracked up to be—keep the oranges away from your pillows.
—Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Oct. 2023
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But the accidental celebrity finds that fame and fortune aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.
—Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
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Iran probably concluded that sanctions relief was not all it was cracked up to be.
—Michael Singh, Foreign Affairs, 25 Oct. 2021
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