Which preposition to use with crunch

of Occurrences 23%

At last he heard the crunch of snow.

in Occurrences 9%

Then, beginning far away and coming closer with the speed of an onrushing hurricane, Gloria heard heavy feet crunching in the dirt and gravel.

on Occurrences 9%

This time Onistah had fainted. CHAPTER XXVIII "IS A' WELL WI' YOU, LASS?" Jessie's shoes crunched on the snow-crust.

under Occurrences 5%

All of a sudden I felt something crunch under my foot, and when I picked it up, I saw it was a fish's backbone.

into Occurrences 4%

The heel crunched into it, throwing a strain heavily on the back of the thigh, and then the ball of the foot slipped back in the midst of a stride.

beneath Occurrences 3%

Appropriate to her Jove-like mood, Nature had planted stern thickets of oak-trees along the rocky edge, and "the acorns of our lord of Chaonia" crunched beneath our feet as we walked on.

through Occurrences 2%

She saw how he walked swiftly, his big boots crunching through the gravel down by the creek bed, splashing through the water, carrying him up the timbered slope toward the horses.

at Occurrences 2%

It was meat to his soul to see this lordly young aristocrat racked with misery and dread, to hold him in his power as a cat holds a mouse, which it can crush and crunch at any moment if it will.

over Occurrences 1%

he added, with an irrational laugh of horror, as the sounds of heavy footsteps crunching over the snow became distinctly audible, approaching through the blackness towards the circle of light.

toward Occurrences 1%

Well, I'll bearen't you a claim spotter?" He turned abruptly and crunched toward the stage.

by Occurrences 1%

The first few days at Kingston were so busily filled with entrance examinations and selection of rooms and the harder selection of room-mates and other furniture that the Dozen saw little of each other, except as they crunched by along the gravel walks of the campus or met for a hasty meal in the dining-hall.

across Occurrences 1%

You swing open the gate and crunch across the pebbles to the door.

between Occurrences 1%

He took up his hunting-whip and whirled it in the air dangerously near Orazio's head, eying him all the while as a dog eyes a rat he means to crunch between his teeth.

about Occurrences 1%

He crunched about cautiously in the snow.

Which preposition to use with  crunch