How to Use crack-up in a Sentence

crack-up

1 of 2 noun

• The Republican crack-up is coming — not over the Iran war and not today.
  — David M. Drucker, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026
• By the end of 1857, no one knew the crack-up of the Union was coming in three years, or that the nation would be in a civil war in four, but the portents were bleak.
  — Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2026
• His view of America moves between the halls of power to the street, making his case for America’s crack-up with not just candidates and campaigns, but protests and pop culture too.
  — Literary Hub, 16 July 2024
• For job seekers and their families and friends, navigating this white collar crack-up can no longer mean looking to the federal or state government for a new government program, department, or benefit.
  — Michael Bernick, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
• And yet for months, that crack-up has failed to meaningfully materialize in polls and focus groups, and the allegations of MAGA infighting have borne little resemblance to the real-world trajectory of conservative politics, where Trump still reigns supreme.
  — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026

crack up

2 of 2 verb

• Is tofu all it's cracked up to be?
  — Sam Woodward, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026
• Are wealth and success all they're cracked up to be?
  — Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
• Wealth and success aren't all they're cracked up to be.
  — Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
• All of them, at some point or another, forced him to crack up.
  — Katey Rich, vanityfair.com, 1 Oct. 2017
• Robbie agreed, leading them both to crack up.
  — EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• Well, private jets aren’t all they’re cracked up to be, either.
  — Jonathan Margolis, Air Mail, 12 Apr. 2025
• It’s filled with office snark and sarcasm that is sure to make the whole team crack up.
  — Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2024
• The man cracked up even when there was no evident punch line on the horizon.
  — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2024
• Jay Leno makes his friends crack up with his impressive mid-air stunt.
  — Jodi Upchurch, CNN, 13 Aug. 2021
• Apa and Cline are both cracking up now as Apa drops one more bomb.
  — EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• Even so, the cost and cost recovery of each may not turn out as they were cracked up to be.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
• Brent had cracked up so hard that Pop had to drag him out of the sanctuary.
  — Tiphanie Yanique, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2019
• The two cracked up laughing, and not about how Ohtani was swinging the bat.
  — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 17 June 2025
• According to a recent study, egg count tests aren't all they're cracked up to be.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 12 Oct. 2017
• Luckily the camera was off of some of us who were cracking up.
  — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 30 Apr. 2018
• Even the best in the comedy business can't help cracking up on set once in a while.
  — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024
• Is one of London's most legendary hotels all it's cracked up to be?
  — Diana Pearl, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2023
• Wondering if the talk about using eggshells in your garden is all it's cracked up to be?
  — Lauren David, Southern Living, 24 Apr. 2026
• Sure, the streets were still cracked up with poverty and inequality and chaos.
  — Wes Enzinna, Harper's magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
• 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
• Scott Fitzgerald had fame and lost it, had money and spent it, had no money and cracked up.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 22 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Being at the top of your game and winning on the biggest stages isn’t always all it's cracked up to be.
  — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 13 July 2026
• 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
• The lil dude even did a touchdown dance in his wheelchair that had the guys applauding and cracking up.
  — The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
• As the audience cracked up, Comey smirked, and took another big sip of wine.
  — Emily Yahr, chicagotribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• Winner This week's winner left us cracking up with his acting skills.
  — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2025
• Maybe the suburbs, and The ’Burbs, aren’t everything they’re cracked up to be.
  — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• The height difference between the dogs left people cracking up.
  — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
• 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