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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.
Surely it cannot have surprised anyone to learn that Russia is run by crooks.
The question has always been: What kind of crooks are they?
The latter is unearned and knee-jerk: "They're all a bunch of crooks."
In fact, it's the older gangster pictures that romanticize the charismatic crooks portrayed by Bogart, Cagney, Robinson, et al.