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How to use crooked in a sentence

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Exposure of the unfixed cartilages to the atmosphere even for a couple of hours also made them crooked and unshapely.
I hope you and your crooked little snaggle-teeth are laughing all the way to the bank right now.
He once had a slender girlfriend with a mop of hair and a crooked, pale, nearly pretty face.
Second, while crooked execs may have fooled analysts, the media, and the public, the market sniffed them out.
There was this big logo on the wall shaped like a crooked cross with a big red sun in the middle.
There are attractive upsweeping crooked trunks with small white flowers and small deep green leaves.
Gripping his crooked staff, the wizard breasted the gasps of indignation and began speaking in a powerful voice.
The youngest children were always afraid of him, for he looked so odd and menacing with his one eye, crooked back, hooked nose and black cloak.
Some were crooked, some had curves in their build, and others had great holes in their sides.
As quick as lightning the buffalo whirled around and caught my foot with her crooked horn and came very close to goring the horse.
A pair of thugs demand that she tell them where she keeps the stash of diamonds they are certain her crooked father left her.
If this is true, then people are just naturally dishonest and crooked and downright rotten.
The only bright spot is provided by Cedric the Entertainer, as a crooked preacher.
Criminals of all hues from drug dealers to crooked business people are busy trying to convert hoarded pounds.
And then there was the dishevelled-looking crooked old man in a dirty stained raincoat and muddy boots.
There is a theory that the area gets its name from crooked trees, specially planed because they were particularly useful for making boats.
He threw a small tweed bag at her, and it chinked like stones as it landed at Drachna's crooked and yellowed toes.
The crooked neck summer squash, scorned by many, is delicious if properly prepared.
I did a few crooked cartwheels and was attempting to do a handstand when he got up, shaking his head in amusement.
Notice how mousy and tentative his stance is, his shoulders stooped and his left arm crooked in a defensive position.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The crooked system of double-check tenders for timber limits must be altered.
The streets along which phut and the slave passed were narrow for the greater part, crooked and full of holes.
This stream is very crooked and seems to run from the bluffs to the river in a perfect serpentine or zig zag direction.
Section shading or cross-hatching may sometimes cause the lines of the drawing to appear crooked to the eye.
Allemand, the pilot, had lost his head and was steering a course crooked as a worm fence.
His fingers crooked, his body in a bow, his wizen, cruel face pallid in the ghostly light.
Spelvin had begun to suspect there was something crooked going on, which made him easy meat for my insidious advances.
Of this wood the natives make their crooked spades for hoeing their fields.
But there's no rule that says you mayn't hit a long hop with a crooked bat.
It was all of eight feet long, and its body was held up from the ground by six crooked, saw-toothed limbs.
Half my memories were doubled, half my lifeline crooked and twisted, three new moles upon my sword-hand.
One rawboned girl with a crooked nose and frizzled blond hair had been married just two months.
There is only the footway to pierce it, crooked and steep and stony from the start.
Knowledge boxes all awry, mouths crooked, and noses that have had the upper-cut.
Then when it did come, it was crooked and knotty, much of it such as a woman could not split.
Now it was crooked round Rupert's, seeming like a man who strangles another.
The crooked knives he makes, too, from old files, shaping and tempering them.
It's even more interesting that his sidekick is a crooked electronics engineer or scientist.
It means that if there has been crooked work we've got to show it up in order to reinstate you.
Short, weak, crooked and black-coloured nails show deceit and slothfulness.
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