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Example sentences for: crux

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

A pitch is `one rope's length of a route,' while the most difficult part is called the crux . There is always a belay or anchor point at the ends of each pitch.
This really is the crux of the "necessary" argument: better to have fought and withdrawn than never to have fought at all.
The NYT says the crux of the Kosovo accord is a force of 2,000 on-the-ground international observers and NATO reconnaissance flights designed to monitor Milosevic's withdrawals of police and troops.
The quote from your last message is, of course, the crux of the issue that Alan Wolfe raised and has been at the core of much of my thinking.
Remember: He says his guy briefed them for these reports, and the crux of the reports was what was supposedly on these tapes.