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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:

For that is the crux of her acting out: She has made your intended into a husband-substitute.
This really is the crux of the "necessary" argument: better to have fought and withdrawn than never to have fought at all.
Rather, it is biomedical knowledge being applied to you and me that is the crux of their concern.
The crux of the Israeli situation is that the Foreign Minister, David Levy, resigned on Sunday because of dissatisfaction with Netanyahu's performance on both the social welfare and Palestinian fronts.
And let's not omit Dowd's incisive summary of the moral and constitutional crux of the Clinton sex scandal, almost worthy of Oscar Wilde: "These are not grounds for impeachment; these are grounds for divorce."