Example sentences for: crows

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

  • Steven gives a winning, perhaps too self-deprecating speech, then holds his plaque high and crows, "I'm king of the room!"

  • This feature has already been demonstrated in the very first example (the cock that crows) and also in clue F. Clue J offers two further instances: at first reading, changed is suggestive of being a past tense but after analysis it is identified as a past participle (serving as an anagram flag); likewise, quarterly shifts from adverb to noun.

  • Roy's descriptions, therefore, can be safely lush, richly runny: "The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dustgreen trees.

  • A clue for COCK might thus come to read: number one in the pecking order dominates hens and crows (a quizzical statement, unless the word crows is read as a verb) or even: creature with a cow's head and a bullock's rump found in a coop (first letter of cow plus last three letters of bullock ).

  • It was Dr. Tracey McNamara of the Bronx Zoo who noticed there were a lot of dead crows in the neighborhood, but her emus were doing fine, and they're highly susceptible to encephalitis, so there had to be some other disease at work.


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