CROOK in a Sentence

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For CROOK, below is one of 69 sentences:
That crook wanted to chisel me out of a hundred dollars when he sold me that "marble" statue he'd cut out of some cheap hunk of rock.

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 Meanings and Examples of CROOK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
crook
 v.  bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure
Classic Sentence: (55 in 4 pages)
1  Her father's arm still lay in the crook of hers, helpless, appealing, trusting, as only the hands of the very young and the very old can be.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  She blew her nose on his bandanna, for she had come from Atlanta without even a handkerchief, and settled back into the crook of Will's arm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
3  The fish had been delivered, Mitchell's boy, holding them in a crook of his arm, jumped off his motor bike.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
4  And with that he made his heavy halberd to play around his head as a shepherd boy flourishes his light crook.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
5  Oh, honest to God, if the crook of it caught him that time he was done for.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
6  I had to watch the steering, and circumvent those snags, and get the tin-pot along by hook or by crook.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
7  He gave a jerk, tried a crook of the knee, twisted his limbs desperately, and made efforts to escape.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
8  A crooked tree-branch crossed it, a branch of the apple-tree under which, on summer evenings, he had sometimes found Mattie sitting when he came up from the mill.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
9  "No," she said, and managed a crooked smile.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  One foot in the shortened stirrup and the other leg crooked about the pommel in an approximation of a side saddle, she set out across the fields toward Mimosa, steeling herself to find it burned.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
11  There were bright tears on Melanie's lashes and understanding in her eyes, and before them, Cathleen's lips curved into the crooked smile of a brave child who tries not to cry.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
12  My pretty, there are penalties in the business world for crooked dealing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
13  Terry is crooked as a dog's hind leg.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
14  I looked through the key-hole; but the door opening into an odd corner of the room, the key-hole prospect was but a crooked and sinister one.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.
15  When she smiled, she showed two rows of strong, crooked yellow teeth.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
Example Sentence:
1  She lay curled up in the crook of his arm.
2  John took one child into the crook of each arm and let them nestle against him.
3  She carried the parcel in the crook of her arm.
4  There is a crook in the lot of everyone.
5  That crook wanted to chisel me out of a hundred dollars when he sold me that "marble" statue he'd cut out of some cheap hunk of rock.
6  She used to crook her little finger as she drinks tea.
7  A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe.
8  He who laughs at crooked men should need walk very straight.
9  You have to drive slowly on these crooked country roads.
10  She winked and crooked a finger at him.
11  She plays the role of a crooked lawyer.
12  Well, I guess if being crooked is good enough for Illinois, it's good enough for the U.S.
13  Finding evidence of police brutality in Kenya should not be too tricky; amateur footage of officers shooting suspected crooks in the back of the head is shared on social media.
14  The police are getting after the crooks in the city.