Example sentences for: crooked

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

  • Crooked Island and Acklins Island

  • The NYT reports that a surprising witness appeared before a NYC City Council hearing on police reform: former NYPD whistleblowing cop Frank Serpico, who called for an independent police monitoring board to investigate police wrongdoing and "create an atmosphere where the crooked cop fears the honest cop, and not the other way around."

  • [From a review by George Stade of Christopher Lehmann-Haupt's A Crooked Man, in The New York Times, 21 February 1995.]

  • To avoid such asides, remember to Speak straight and sit crooked; or again, After the passing of incense there is no sitting , the message here echoed by a telling rhyme lost in translation.

  • The one sex document, in Toobin's view, is the 'distinguishing characteristic' affidavit (in which, as was reported over a year ago, Jones says Clinton's penis was crooked).


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