1734 examples of crooked in sentences

Nothing was round, and nothing was crooked.

O gloriously free Am I in freedom from three crooked things: From quern, from mortar, from my crook-back'd lord!

"There's nobody gets no good out of that, but him," said he; "but you've got it crooked about their not goin' to church.

"He is crooked and he's a toucher.

"Go ahead and pump the crooked sneak, but don't swallow his lies.

He's got a mooked crugI mean a crooked mug.

Bandy, you are liable to have to use those crooked legs of yours in a decidedly lively manner before the night is over.

He must have some cause for playing crooked, though.

If he started out to accomplish anything in a square way, he was likely to fancy that it could be done with less trouble in a crooked manner, and his natural instinct would switch him off from the course he should have followed.

" "I can't help being sorry to know that a fellow I have considered white and a friend is crooked and an enemy, if it is to prove that way.

Do you remember, my dear cousin, how scornfully we used to look at "little crooked Massachusetts," as we called it, on the map, while comparing the other States with good old Virginia?

The old, queer-looking houses seem to be placed cornerwise on the most crooked of streets, all up hill and down, and winding around so that I begin to think they have lost themselves and will come to a stop, when out they start, from behind some red or green house which they had run around just for fun.

Marie jerked up a shade and pushed a chair crooked and kicked a rug up at one corner; but Mary put them all back properlyso there wasn't any fun in that for long.

He knew he was playing a crooked game with stacked cards.

Meant for a fine old town, to ripen like a Cheshire cheese within its walls of ancient rind, burrowed by crooked alleys and mottled with venerable mould, it seems likely to sacrifice its mellow future to a vulgar material prosperity.

Come round to the Crooked Billet, so as we can talk it over in peace and quiet.

The contrast is similar to that between Chicago, with its straight streets crossing at right angles, and Boston, or London, with their labyrinths of crooked lanes.

Everything I wished for has come to pass, even the hearing you call me by that blessed name; but, Maggie, when to-morrow they say that I am deadwhen you come down to look upon me lying here asleep, you needn't call me 'Grandmother,' you may say 'poor Hagar!' with the rest; and, Maggie, is it too much to ask that your own hands will arrange my hair, fix my cap, and straighten my poor old crooked limbs for the coffin?

These streets are in reality narrow crooked lanes paved with pebbles, slanting towards the gutter in the centre.

" For the first time Burke, regaining his self-confidence, saw that she was not an enemy, but an appreciative spectator, and his face broke up in a smile, queer, crooked, wrinkled, but brilliant.

"I feel sorry for you, but you can't imagine how painful it is to us to think that Mathilde came so near to being mixed up with a crooked deal like thatMathilde, of all people.

Stukeley's opinion, in which he is joined by Whitaker, the Manchester historian, is, that it was the Guetheling roadSarn Guethelin, or the road of the Irish, the G being pronounced as a W. Dr. Wilkes says, that it is more indented and crooked than other Roman Roads usually are, and supposes that it was formed of Wattles, which was the idea also of Pointer.

4. We often use an adjective and a common noun; as, the Yellow sea, the Indian ocean, the White hills, Crooked lake, the Red river; or, with two capitals, the Yellow Sea, the Indian Ocean, the White Hills, Crooked Lake, the Red River.

4. We often use an adjective and a common noun; as, the Yellow sea, the Indian ocean, the White hills, Crooked lake, the Red river; or, with two capitals, the Yellow Sea, the Indian Ocean, the White Hills, Crooked Lake, the Red River.

"The quince tree is of a low stature; the branches are diffused and crooked.

1734 examples of  crooked  in sentences