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Example sentences for: crooks

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

The New York Times applauds Pol Pot's demise but regrets that crooks, schemers, and butchers evidently will continue to run the country.
It combines the music video syntax of Trainspotting with the jokey nihilist bloodletting of Pulp Fiction . You're supposed to root for the hapless amateur crooks over the platoons of murderous professional ones, and to watch as, with farcical precision, the bad guys end up accidentally blowing one another away.
Altered or obliterated by crooks or pranksters?
Law enforcement authorities describe these detailed reports as essential in their battle against drug traffickers, terrorists, Medicare crooks, and embezzlers, as well as international money launderers.
The question has always been: What kind of crooks are they?