CROOK in a Sentence
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69 example sentences for CROOK, such as:
1. Terry is crooked as a dog's hind leg.
2. She plays the role of a crooked lawyer.
3. She winked and crooked a finger at him.
4. There is a crook in the lot of everyone.
5. She lay curled up in the crook of his arm.
2. She plays the role of a crooked lawyer.
3. She winked and crooked a finger at him.
4. There is a crook in the lot of everyone.
5. She lay curled up in the crook of his arm.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of CROOK
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crook
n. a circular segment of a curve
n. a long staff with one end being hook shaped
Classic Sentence: (55 in 4 pages)
1 Her father's arm still lay in the crook of hers, helpless, appealing, trusting, as only the hands of the very young and the very old can be.
2 She blew her nose on his bandanna, for she had come from Atlanta without even a handkerchief, and settled back into the crook of Will's arm.
3 The fish had been delivered, Mitchell's boy, holding them in a crook of his arm, jumped off his motor bike.
4 And with that he made his heavy halberd to play around his head as a shepherd boy flourishes his light crook.
5 Oh, honest to God, if the crook of it caught him that time he was done for.
6 I had to watch the steering, and circumvent those snags, and get the tin-pot along by hook or by crook.
7 He gave a jerk, tried a crook of the knee, twisted his limbs desperately, and made efforts to escape.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
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8 A crooked tree-branch crossed it, a branch of the apple-tree under which, on summer evenings, he had sometimes found Mattie sitting when he came up from the mill.
9 "No," she said, and managed a crooked smile.
10 One foot in the shortened stirrup and the other leg crooked about the pommel in an approximation of a side saddle, she set out across the fields toward Mimosa, steeling herself to find it burned.
11 There were bright tears on Melanie's lashes and understanding in her eyes, and before them, Cathleen's lips curved into the crooked smile of a brave child who tries not to cry.
12 My pretty, there are penalties in the business world for crooked dealing.
13 Terry is crooked as a dog's hind leg.
14 I looked through the key-hole; but the door opening into an odd corner of the room, the key-hole prospect was but a crooked and sinister one.
15 When she smiled, she showed two rows of strong, crooked yellow teeth.
Example Sentence:
1 She lay curled up in the crook of his arm.
2 John took one child into the crook of each arm and let them nestle against him.
3 She carried the parcel in the crook of her arm.
4 There is a crook in the lot of everyone.
5 That crook wanted to chisel me out of a hundred dollars when he sold me that "marble" statue he'd cut out of some cheap hunk of rock.
6 She used to crook her little finger as she drinks tea.
7 A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe.
8 He who laughs at crooked men should need walk very straight.
9 You have to drive slowly on these crooked country roads.
10 She winked and crooked a finger at him.
11 She plays the role of a crooked lawyer.
12 Well, I guess if being crooked is good enough for Illinois, it's good enough for the U.S.
13 Finding evidence of police brutality in Kenya should not be too tricky; amateur footage of officers shooting suspected crooks in the back of the head is shared on social media.
14 The police are getting after the crooks in the city.