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How to use crook in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, adjective

Crook means a bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure. Example: “She held the baby in the crook of her arm.”

Examples of crook by meaning

nounA bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.

  • She held the baby in the crook of her arm.

nounA bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).

  • the crook of a cane

nounA person who steals, lies, cheats, or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal; a scoundrel, scofflaw...

  • In these early days of silent pictures, the accent was chiefly on thrills and danger as provided by supposedly unstoppable locomotives with crooks or maniacs on the footplate.1958 February, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 88

verbTo bend, or form into a hook.

  • He crooked his finger toward me.

adjectiveBad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.

  • That work you did on my car is crook, mate.
  • Not turning up for training was pretty crook.
  • The soup was crook.1981, Herman Charles Bosman, The Collected Works of Herman Charles Bosman, page 101

adjectiveIll, sick.

  • I′m feeling a bit crook.

adjectiveAnnoyed, angry; upset.

  • Ann explained to the teacher what had happened and the nuns went crook at me too.2006, Jimmy Butt, Felicity Dargan, I've Been Bloody Lucky: The Story of an Orphan Named Jimmy Butt, page 17
  • I went home on the tram, then Mum went crook at me because I was late getting home—I had tickets for Mum and her friend to go to the Regent that night and she was annoyed because I was late.2007, Jo Wainer, Bess: Lost: Illegal Abortion Stories, page 159
  • I went crook at them for not telling me and as soon as she was well enough I took her home to the camping area and she soon picked up.2007, Ruby Langford Ginibi, Don′t Take Your Love to Town, page 100

More sentences with crook

  • You say that the president is a crook, and I certainly agree with you there.From the entry there
  • She was determined to win the contract by hook or by crook.From the entry by hook or by crook
  • We have had our address used by scurrilous crooks in the past to gain assets by fraud.From the entry scurrilous
  • The woman was cradling the baby in the crook of her arm as she fed it.From the entry cradling
  • Paul and Hot Springs, Arkansas, as sites on crooks' favorite cool-down triptychs.2013, Neal Karlen, Augie’s Secrets: The Minneapolis Mob and the King of the Hennepin Strip. From the entry mishegass
  • There was sand in every crook and nanny, from truck to keel.2009, Ted Macey, Merry Swan, Jack the Lad RN, page 17. From the entry crook and nanny
  • There is no way to avoid the slight cups, crooks, bows and twists that characterize wood.1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 82. From the entry characterize
  • People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.1973 November 17, Richard Milhous Nixon, Orlando press conference. From the entry not
  • A hand touched her arm, in the crook of the bare flesh inside the elbow.1968, Peter Dickinson, The Glass-Sided Ant's Nest, New York, N.Y.; Evanston, I.L.: Harper & Row, Publishers, page 23. From the entry jiminy
  • He's a master crook, and—it'll pay us all to string with him."1922, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 10, in Flowing Gold. From the entry have someone's number
  • 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
  • I'm a computer crook, the Willie Sutton of hackers.1986 April, Curtis Slepian, “The April Papers”, in R. Wayne Schmittberger, editor, Games, volume 10, number 4 (number 74 overall), New…. From the entry hacker
  • He shifted his record board into the crook of his arm as he came up and punched for a new entry.1980, Gordon R. Dickson, In Iron Years, →ISBN, page 38. From the entry planetality
  • “I said he had a criminal face.” “He can't help his face.” “He can help being a crook and an impostor.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC. From the entry impostor
  • Leeks—after the crook stage, but before four leaves have developed.1959, Commercial Grower Handbook and Diary, page 93. From the entry brassica
  • She paused, still clutching her fork, and pushed back a lock of hair with the crook of her wrist.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 167. From the entry veg
  • In other words, get a mill in your operating position by hook or crook and use it regularly.1941, QST, volume 25, numbers 2–6, page 90. From the entry mill
  • Now the soldier carries but one spear, the shepherd one crook, the pedestrian one staff, the farmer one pike.[1925], Arthur Watkins, “Ley-men”, in The Old Straight Track; Its Mounds, Beacons, Moats, Sites, and Mark Stones, London: Methuen, →OCLC…. From the entry dodman
  • "A formidable incentive for a weak and desperate man to secure a fortune by hook or crook, Max," said Carlyle drily.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry by hook or crook
  • "Crook in the guts," he says tersely.1914 October 11, “In camp: The day’s work of a W.A. soldier”, in The Sunday Times, number 875, Perth, W.A.: E. W. Finn for “The Sunday…. From the entry tabloid
  • "It's the crooks and the fourflushers who have put the boxing game on the hummer," the champion was saying.1913, Collier's - Volume 52, page 37. From the entry hummer
  • Buscemi relished the chance to portray the squirrelly, volatile crook Carl Showalter, a figure that came together only once the actor got dressed.2021 June 21, Charles Bramesco, “‘So, does it hold up?’: Fargo’s stars and co-creator on its 25th anniversary”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry squirrelly
  • Elijah is tucked in the crook of Mum’s arm, and she and Dad are gazing down at him with complete heart eyes.2017, Lisa Williamson, All About Mia, Oxford: David Fickling Books, →ISBN, page 343. From the entry heart eyes
  • Once outside the gate, Frederick and Karl stride ahead, arm in crook, their heads tilted close so as not to drop anything important between them.2015, Gavin McCrea, Mrs Engels, Melbourne: Scribe, page 28. From the entry arm in crook
  • Max Bialystock is many things — a stinking liar, a crook, a shameless noodge, a stud muffin for the elderly and infirm.2007 January 19, Charles Isherwood, “Welterweight Bialystock Treads Softly on Big Shtick”, in New York Times. From the entry noodge
  • He pulled me to a pillar, pushing up my shirtsleeve and looking again at the skin in the crook of my arm.2004, Louise Wareham, Since You Ask, →ISBN, page 140. From the entry shirtsleeve
  • Besides oak, small amounts of beech and large numbers of ‘doddards’ (probably moribund oak, that provided big limbs, crooks and knees) were also taken.2001, Colin R. Tubbs, The New Forest: History, Ecology & Conservation, 2nd edition, Lyndhurst, Hants.: New Forest Ninth Centenary Trust…. From the entry doddard
  • The crooks have wrung such abundant profits from the coupons that "no prison sentence could be long enough," as one courtroom bystander put it.1981, The Current Digest of the Soviet Press - Volume 33, page 18. From the entry fuelish
  • Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippy, good-timer, (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terribly bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.1979, Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. From the entry out to lunch

Meaning of crook

  1. noun A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
  2. noun A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
  3. noun A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).

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Questions about crook in a sentence

How do you use crook in a sentence?
Crook is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “She held the baby in the crook of her arm.”
What is a short sentence with crook?
“The soup was crook.”
What does crook mean?
Crook means a bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.

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