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How to use cranny in a sentence

22 example sentences · noun, verb

Cranny means a small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance. Example: “Muffins are tastiest when butter seeps into all the nooks and crannies.”

More sentences with cranny

  • Muffins are tastiest when butter seeps into all the nooks and crannies.From the entry crannies
  • Everyone helped out to clean every nook and cranny of the house.From the entry nook and cranny
  • Cleaning this equipment really isn't hard except that getting into all the nooks and crannies is time-consuming.From the entry nook and cranny
  • This book could be in any nook or cranny of the house.From the entry any nook or cranny
  • There was not one nook or cranny in the house to hide it.From the entry nook or cranny
  • There's not a nook or cranny that I haven't looked in.From the entry nook or cranny
  • A drought had caused the earth to chine and cranny.From the entry chine
  • The corners and crannies of too many houses are stuffed with such accumulations.1911, “House-cleaning out of fashion”, in The Medical Brief, volume 39, number 11, page 704. From the entry drayful
  • Charley chased the elusive idea through all the nooks and crannies of his drowning consciousness.1910, Jack London, chapter 6, in Lost Face, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2011. From the entry elusive
  • Little kernels of corn fresh off the cob nestle their way into this pasta shape's nooks and crannies.2021 July 29, Gianna Nebbia, “Cascatelli with Tomatoes and Corn”, in On the Bias, archived from the original on 11 Dec 2023. From the entry cascatelli
  • Singlism seems to seep into way too many of the nooks and crannies of a person's life and leave its stain.2006, Bella DePaulo, Singled Out: How Singles are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After, St. Martin's…. From the entry singlism
  • The beat Polis knew every nook and cranny on his beat, (he knew every crook and nanny too).2003 October 6, Robert Peffers, “The American Spirit”, in soc.culture.irish (Usenet). From the entry crook and nanny
  • Garden staff dye eggs donated by local markets and tuck them into nooks and crannies throughout the expansive grounds.2002, Karen Hastings, Insiders' Guide to Santa Barbara: Including Channel Islands National Park, Insiders' Guide, →ISBN, page 225. From the entry eggstravaganza
  • George Soros remains a favorite target of conservative conspiracy theorists, seeing his corrupting influence behind every liberal movement and within every nook and cranny.2020 November 18, Brian Lowry, “‘Soros’ looks at the life and activism of the right’s favorite bogeyman”, in CNN. From the entry corrupt
  • Office programs are drowning in features—and they're crammed into so many different nooks and crannies that even pros don't know where to look.2007, Chris Grover, Matthew MacDonald, E. A. Vander Veer, Office 2007: The Missing Manual, page 586. From the entry ribbon
  • The captain ordered an immediate and thorough search of the entire ship from stem to stern—no nook or cranny was to be overlooked.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 106. From the entry from stem to stern
  • Oyster mushrooms have a great texture, and they also provide a lot of nooks and crannies for the dredging, which will give you an amazingly crispy chick’n!2022, Brian Watson, Vegan Fast Food: Copycat Burgers, Tacos, Fried Chicken, Pizza, Milkshakes, and More!, The Harvard Common Press, →ISBN…. From the entry chick'n
  • He and his team set up “dissemination stations,” consisting of dark, damp cloths dusted with pyriproxyfen, in the nooks and crannies of aboveground tombs in a cemetery.2009 June 23, Henry Fountain, “Getting Mosquitoes to Spread Poison to Their Own Larvae”, in New York Times. From the entry pyriproxyfen
  • The wardrobe mistress from Wicked showed the kids where the nooks and crannies are hidden in the show's lavish costumes to allow the leading ladies to hang from ropes.2008 May 16, Lina Lofaro, “Grade School Impresarios”, in Time. From the entry wardrobe mistress
  • Many can last without a shower with equal aplomb, until the old nooks and crannies start getting a bit whiffy—even then, though, there's that marvellous modern solution—shower in a can.2011, Tony Inman, The Parrot & The Lady, page 147. From the entry shower in a can
  • The comedian would have divers bottles of tipple hidden under bushes and in crannies around his house, and would select guests to embark on his idea of a treasure hunt.1974, Raoul Walsh, “Hail to the Chief”, in Each Man in His Time: The Life Story of a Director, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux…. From the entry tipple
  • Men said that the garden had been roofed over against the sun with great sheets of lead and copper, leaving no cranny through which the tiniest star could peer down.1938 April, Clark Ashton Smith, “The Garden of Adompha”, in Weird Tales, volume 31. From the entry lethean

Meaning of cranny

  1. noun A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
  2. noun A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
  3. verb To break into, or become full of, crannies.

Full definition of cranny

Questions about cranny in a sentence

How do you use cranny in a sentence?
Cranny is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Muffins are tastiest when butter seeps into all the nooks and crannies.”
What is a short sentence with cranny?
“A drought had caused the earth to chine and cranny.”
What does cranny mean?
Cranny means a small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.

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