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Example sentences for: cronies

How can you use “cronies” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

He believes that politics is about bending the rules for cronies and campaign contributors, and he has been implicated in more gross behavior than almost any politician around.
Our failure to embrace a lackluster technical fix from Al Gore and his Web cronies.
At the same time, the governor and his cronies were busily pocketing bribes, as was the custom in the self-financing French colonial service.
By hiking his share in the Texas Rangers from 1.8 percent to 12 percent, the governor's cronies helped him realize a 2,400 percent return on his investment.
After all, such calculations would prove that employers never prefer relatives or cronies' kids or pretty women, that they never goof off on the golf course and that they never waste money in general, because all these things would reduce their market performance.