Example sentences for: crooked

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

  • 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.

  • Here was a man who'd devoted his life to making crooked things straight . Was Simpson taking something straight --the uprightness of Dr. Nathan Seltzer--and making it crooked ? The more he thought about it, the more it seemed to Chatterbox that Dr. Seltzer, no less than Lisa Brennan-Jobs, had a right to tell his side of the story.

  • The statistics might seem cold, but it's impossib le to remain complacent after meeting someone like Katherine -- or a family who has been left homeless by an illegal eviction, a senior who lost his home to foreclosure from a crooked loan transaction, or a domestic violence victim unable to navigate the courts to get a restraining order.

  • 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."

  • 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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