The moment when the egg actually cracked all the way through was marked by a sudden change in the tone of the hammer strike.
The one whose egg cracked had to give it up.
You might be peering back through time at our own ancestors, as they existed soon after the egg of time cracked open.
Steff had just taken hold of the ladder himself when the egg cracked.
In that brief interval four more eggs had cracked open.
Others were equally agitated, and I could hear people behind me make wagers as to which egg would crack first.
With little regard for how many eggs cracked, she slammed down the bucket.
An egg had cracked, and the dragon had chosen his rider.
The egg will crack and flatten itself against the pavement.
The eggs will not crack due to sudden change in temperatures.