Example sentences for: crow

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

  • Useful spoonerisms substitute a common or meaningful phrase for another when transposition occurs, as when “the movement was dealt a crushing blow” becomes “the movement was dealt a blushing crow .” Changing “there's a cozy nook in my kitchen” to “there's a nosey cook in my kitchen” not only introduces a totally new meaning, but also injects humor.

  • There were previously unthinkable triumphs: protests at Birmingham and Selma, Ala., that helped topple Jim Crow; a quarter-million Americans gathering in Washington to demand racial equality; black activists and Northern white volunteers registering hordes of black voters; a civil-rights act outlawing racial discrimination, passed despite a three-month Senate filibuster.

  • "It did the Vice President and me a lot of good to pick up those hammers and crow bars and tear something down," President Clinton said Monday.

  • The middle route (up Crow Lane and Stone Hill to Middle Road) is the most direct if you are in a hurry.

  • The Arapaho called themselves `trader (s) arapaho; the Crow called them aa-raxpé-ahu having much skin (i.e., tattooed), and it is the Crow word that has found its way into the etymological information in Webster's Third New International Dictionary .


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