CRANKY in a Sentence

Learn CRANKY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for CRANKY, such as:
1. And Zeena, she was always cranky.
2. Vegetarianism has shed its cranky image.
3. In most of her life, she lived in cranky desperation.
4. I'll stay with you till I am a cross cranky old woman.
5. We've both been cranky, and said a lot of things we didn't mean.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CRANKY
cranky
 a.  easily irritated or annoyed
 a.  (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
Classic Sentence:
1  And Zeena, she was always cranky.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  We've both been cranky, and said a lot of things we didn't mean.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  "I'm talking like a cranky teacher," she sighed.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
4  I bring babies into the world, and save lives, and make cranky husbands quit being mean to their wives.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
5  Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
6  I'll stay with you till I am a cross cranky old woman.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
Example Sentence:
1  In most of her life, she lived in cranky desperation.
2  Vegetarianism has shed its cranky image.