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How to use crow in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, adjective, verb

Crow means a bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call. Example: “If you wanna get inside, you're gonna have to crow open that door.”

Examples of crow by meaning

nounA bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh...

  • Gaslark in his splendour on the golden stairs saying adieu to those three captains and their matchless armament foredoomed to dogs and crows on Salapanta Hills.1922, E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroborus

nounA bar of iron with a beak, crook or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.

  • Watt might have broken the door down, with an axe, or a crow, or a small charge of explosive, but this might have aroused Erskine's suspicions, and Watt did not want that.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

nounSomeone who keeps watch while their associates commit a crime; a lookout.

  • The crow, Agar's woman, lounged across the street from the Trent mansion.1975, Michael Crichton, The Great Train Robbery

nounThe emblem of an eagle, a sign of military rank.

  • A young petty officer that must have just received his “crow” (a single chevron, with an eagle over it) was showing off to several seamen.2002, Ed Goodrich, Riggers that Dive, page 46
  • The young man had been threatened with loss of his third class rank, his “crow,” the eagle in a petty officer's sleeve insignia.2003, Jonathan T. Malay, Seraphim Sky, page 106

adjectiveDark black, the color of a crow; crow-black.

  • "Though her crow hair is lovely and wavy, she loathes it and craves yellow locks.1945, George Marsh, Ask No Quarter, New York, W. Morrow & Company

verbTo use a crowbar, wedge, or other implement to attempt to open a surface by leveraging force on the opposite end of the...

  • If you wanna get inside, you're gonna have to crow open that door.

verbTo make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure...

  • Hearing the miner's footsteps, the baby would put up his arms and crow.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter III, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, part I, page 48

verbTo shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.

  • He’s been crowing all day about winning the game of cards.
  • Touting its sponsorship of local engineering and sustainability programs, Amazon crows about such “investments” as its dog park, playing fields, art installations, and Buckyball-reminiscent domical gardens.2017 September 27, Julianne Tveten, “Zucktown, USA”, in The Baffler

More sentences with crow

  • A murder of crows dotted my backyard.From the entry murder
  • It is 15 kilometers as the crow flies.From the entry as the crow flies
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:crowed over.From the entry crowed over
  • The New Caledonian crow is known for creating tools from plant material to capture prey hiding in cracks and crevices.From the entry New Caledonian crow
  • The crow slowly flapped its wings.From the entry flap
  • “In my past life, I was the world's foremost crow expert.2026 April 12, Shane Kosakowski, “Crowmaster” (11:21 from the start), in Universal Basic Guys, season 2, episode 18, spoken by Dr. Michael…. From the entry minifig
  • Dancing on graves just makes the gravedancers look silly and annoys the crows.2010 November 26, D.F. Oliveria, “Nevada 34, Boise State 31 In Overtime”, in The Spokesman Review. From the entry gravedancer
  • Crows on the roof beat their wings and made their low tubercular moan.2007, Declan Hughes, chapter 1, in The Colour of Blood. From the entry tubercular
  • In Maolin, outside Kaohsiung, millions of striped blue crow butterflies create a purplish haze in the forests.2006, David C. King, Taiwan (Enchantment of the World), Children's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 43. From the entry Maolin
  • Without the murder of crows roosting in its branches, Nevermore Tree looked as bare as a skeleton.2001, Daniel Handler, The Vile Village, →ISBN, page 76. From the entry murder
  • Great word!' would crow Hadden, coming upon 'snaggle-toothed,' 'pig-faced.' Appearing also were first gratuitous invasions of privacy.1998 March 9, “75 Years Of Miscellany”, in Time, retrieved 30 Dec 2007. From the entry Timese
  • I helped everybody all week, and I asked him questions about dinosaurs, and holy crow!1993, Joan Davenport Carris, chapter 1, in Stolen Bones, Boston, Mass.; Toronto, Ont.; London: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry grandsonly
  • So I says to meself: stone the crows, I′m a doomed man, might as well shoot through.1988, Janette Turner Hospital, Charades, page 63. From the entry stone the crows
  • The crows and the birds would have a drink, too, and do a bit of goona.1987, Sally Morgan, My Place, Fremantle Press, page 411. From the entry goona
  • He was a tall lean man with a voice like a rasping crow.1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1066. From the entry homburg
  • The he pinched himself to make sure he was really awake, "Stone the crows!" he said softly.1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 141. From the entry stone the crows
  • Mei-shan, which means Plum Mountain, was ten miles south of Touliu, as the crow flies.1967, Gloria Joan Watts, chapter 2, in An American Nun in Taiwan, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 36. From the entry Touliu
  • Crow Park: De-stressing of long-welded rails on the down main line.1960 June, “Talking of Trains: Sunday on the G.N. line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 322. From the entry de-stressing
  • Crows and Sioux were enemies, but they did business together when it was worth while.1952, Dorothy M. Johnson, The Unbeliever; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 30. From the entry Sioux
  • Gehrig made Dean eat crow in the third inning by smashing a home run.1937 July 19, “Baseball Races”, in Time, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2008. From the entry eat crow
  • It is true also that the roosters, especially during full moon, crow all night.1923 May, Lawrence Shaw Mayo, “The Shenando’ Valley”, in The Atlantic Monthly, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry full moon
  • The station was half deserted, half rowdy, several fellows were drunk, shouting and crowing.1922, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 6, in Aaron’s Rod, London: Martin Secker, page 69. From the entry bowels
  • Next day he corned Chum Frink and crowed, "Well, old son, I finished it last evening!1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XIII, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 159. From the entry lam out
  • Chanticleers in the town crowed roupily and ruefully for months thereafter.1907, Neil Munro, chapter XXXI, in Bud: A Novel, Harper & Brothers, page 297. From the entry roupily
  • He must apologise, he saw that clearly enough, must eat crow, as he told himself.1901, Frank Norris, chapter 2, in The Octopus. From the entry eat crow
  • Straightway a great flock of wild crows came flying toward her, enough to darken the sky.1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC. From the entry straightway
  • Over-the-top tales flew around like a conspiracy of crows.2023, Jann Arden, The Bittlemores: A Novel, Random House of Canada. From the entry conspiracy
  • While the big-money long-term deal has opened the door for criticism, there may have been a bit of an early crow.2023 September 5, Liam O'Loughlin, Chris Danks, “The Fair Dinkum Department Round 27: NRL finals hopes, Brandon Smith's form and Rabbitohs…. From the entry early crow
  • The other crows call her sweetling and hushling, and give her cigarette ends to put in her little bag.2010, Mike Allen, Marie Brennan, Tori Truslow, Clockwork Phoenix 3. From the entry hushling
  • At last, having gained confidence in his identity, he stopped and let out a crow of pride in his roosterness.1991, Isaiah Oke, Joe Wright, Blood Secrets, page 9. From the entry roosterness

Meaning of crow

  1. noun A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call.
  2. noun Any of various dark-coloured nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euploea.
  3. noun A bar of iron with a beak, crook or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.

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Questions about crow in a sentence

How do you use crow in a sentence?
Crow is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “If you wanna get inside, you're gonna have to crow open that door.”
What is a short sentence with crow?
“The crow slowly flapped its wings.”
What does crow mean?
Crow means a bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call.

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