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How to use crony in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun

Crony means a close friend. Example: “The mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay.”

More sentences with crony

  • The mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay.From the entry plum
  • Griff and his cronies played spades at the back of the classroom.2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 57. From the entry spades
  • As the bender wore on, Morrissey and his cronies eventually slipped under the haze of the booze.2016, Brian Bouyea, Bare Knuckles & Saratoga Racing. From the entry slip under
  • About fifty metres ahead of me was another of Jan's cronies.2014, Alfie Robins, Just Whistle, →ISBN. From the entry turn up for the books
  • Now cronies may reve in all these kind of, honestly, "stupidisms,” yet they are really nonsense.2013, James MacDonald, Authentic: Developing the Disciplines of a Sincere Faith. From the entry stupidism
  • My maternals were Huguenots on the lamb from the Duque de Guise and his cronies.2003 May 1, hippo, “Warning To Syria”, in alt.history.british (Usenet), archived from the original on 09 Dec 2025. From the entry maternal
  • Pop came over with a number of his saloon cronies . . . .1997, John McCabe, Cagney, ch. 1 (reprinted in New York Times) (retrieved 27 May 2017). From the entry feel no pain
  • Truman bought quite a bill of goods from the old cronies who had flocked to Harriman.1956 August 27, “Harry's Bitter Week”, in Time. From the entry bill of goods
  • I met Indians whose land is being devoured by Díaz's cronies, entire towns swallowed up, and the people reduced to peonage.2014, Michael Nava, The City of Palaces, Terrace Books, page 191. From the entry peonage
  • Indonesia has been an exemplar of crony capitalism, and Russia has its tycoonocrats instead of the rule of law.1998, Congressional Record, V. 144, Pt. 13, July 31, 1998 to September 8 1998, September 2 1998, p. 19411. From the entry tycoonocrat
  • He and his crazy-pated cronies have raided Campbell lands yet again and driven another hundred fat cattle into Glencoe byres."1973, Donald McGhie, The Red Hand of the Macdonalds, London: Robert Hale & Company, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry crazy-pated
  • On Friday, it urged followers: “Retweet if you believe that Trump & his cronies are lying to the public and treating us like we’re stupid.2025 July 20, Ailia Zehra, “Busted: Fake MAGA bot accounts are now contradicting themselves over Trump and Epstein”, in Raw Story. From the entry retweet
  • Never mind that executive privilege isn’t an ironclad lockbox that wipes away all criminal and undemocratic activity by a former president and his cronies.2021 November 17, Mark Fiore, “Trump-Branded Executive Privilege”, in Mark Fiore's Political Animation, archived from the original on 11…. From the entry insurrecter
  • For the TLC undertaking, he employs only underachievers, cronies who have been hired for their ability to make the work site madcap and, therefore, filmable.2005 November 3, Ned Martel, “The Unlikely Progress of a Barely Motivated Underachiever”, in The New York Times, archived from the…. From the entry TLC
  • Fu’s virtuous life has been a sore rebuke to the old lady who spends her days gossiping, feasting and gambling with her old cronies.1915, “Missions”, in Missions: American Baptist International Magazine, volume 6, American Baptist Convention, page 672. From the entry po po
  • He probably would have failed in this had not some crony of the captain's, living near by, reminded him over the telephone that he had a chess engagement.1923, Bertrand W. Sinclair, The Popular Magazine, Twice in the Graveyard Watch. From the entry outsit
  • By noon the fat, perspiring, and importantly busy merchant arrives, overweighted with red blood, fat, and responsibility, for a game of manille or dominoes with three or four old cronies.1916, F[rank] Berkeley Smith, Babette: A Novel, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 240. From the entry overweight

Meaning of crony

  1. noun A close friend.
  2. noun A trusted companion or partner in a criminal organization.
  3. noun An old woman; a crone.

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Questions about crony in a sentence

How do you use crony in a sentence?
Crony is used as a noun. For example: “The mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay.”
What is a short sentence with crony?
“About fifty metres ahead of me was another of Jan's cronies.”
What does crony mean?
Crony means a close friend.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crony (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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