How to Use crackerjack in a Sentence

crackerjack

noun

• 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
• And a crackerjack team that mixes new and familiar faces.
  — New York Times, 29 Sep. 2021
• 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
• When sober, Sheean was a fearless crackerjack reporter.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
• Peanuts, popcorn and crackerjack, what’s more American than a baseball game on a summer night?
  — Petula Dvorak, The Denver Post, 25 June 2019
• 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
• 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
• This crackerjack of a novel, published on 195 pages of poor-quality paper—in conformity with the pinched standards of postwar Britain—was an instant bestseller.
  — Rachel Johnson, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The latest issue of tED Magazine focuses on succession with a series of crackerjack articles.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Teenage Bounty Hunters is also propelled by excellent comic performances by Phillips and Fellini, who don't look all that similar but do share a fizzy chemistry, especially in their crackerjack-timed quips and clairvoyant communications.
  — Inkoo Kang, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2020
• 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

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024