How to Use crap in a Sentence
crap
noun-
The thing is, the swimming part, that part’s good, the rest is crap.
— Anne Carson, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024 -
Some go for the slots, some for craps, some for strippers, and some for the shows.
— Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 18 June 2023 -
Our sand is pink and perfect, and the Venice Beach sand is full of so much crap.
— Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 July 2023 -
The body parts that are not coated in mud are covered in crap.
— David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2024 -
How can people come out with this crap in the face of genuine tragedy?
— Cameron K McEwan, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024 -
What is the next wave of … lack of a better word … crap that’s going to happen?
— Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 31 May 2024 -
Sci-fi has been warning people about this crap for decades.
— WIRED, 3 Nov. 2023 -
The sheer volume of vitriol and crap kept beating mods down too.
— Paresh Dave, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024 -
Melvin, who managed to make some chicken salad out of the crap scooped off the floor of Oakland’s coop, seemed perfect.
— Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2023 -
Only her father’s advice to her, that life itself is a crap game, has held up over time.
— Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024 -
Manson starts the ‘60s as a grubby little inmate whose rap sheet—prison buggery aside—is a bunch of crap.
— Matt Thompson, Spin, 10 Sep. 2023 -
For the best online craps experience, Ignition is the place to be.
— Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024 -
Next opportunity — at Raiders (Thursday): F- A tale of two leaky ships passing on the craps table in the night.
— Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2023 -
Why does that make the reader happy, whereas all the new Disney crap makes everyone sad?
— Joel Stein, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2023 -
These can be treated like utter crap and still sound great, according to the company.
— Parker Hall, WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023 -
If the same characters ended up at the same craps table in Vegas and rode a collective winning streak, would that be a triumph against The Man?
— Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023 -
The agreement, known as a compact, gave the tribe control over sports betting in Florida and allowed its casinos to offer roulette and craps.
— Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024 -
This is the result of the extreme left and PC crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people.
— Angela Yang, NBC News, 30 Apr. 2024 -
Take your pick of 250 slots; alternatively, try your luck at table games like blackjack, roulette, or craps.
— Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2024 -
Ars Technica already wrote a good, practical guide to turning off most of the crap that Windows 11 includes.
— Nathan Edwards, The Verge, 21 Apr. 2024 -
Because pregnant mice, generally speaking, can and will kick the absolute crap out of a young male mouse.
— Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 30 Aug. 2023 -
The deal also allowed the tribe to contract with the state’s pari-mutuel operators to offer sports betting and gave the Seminoles permission to add craps and roulette at their casinos.
— Dara Kam, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024 -
Table game fans have enough options to keep them entertained, and a great range of specialty games like real money craps rounds out their catalog.
— Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2024 -
Manicures, pedicures, massages and knitting lessons were all available for guests to indulge in — as well as tables for people to play blackjack, craps and poker.
— Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2024 -
Babinski said there are now a full complement of 48 table games, including blackjack, roulette, craps, baccarat, and some forms of poker.
— Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 27 July 2023 -
Then there are the self-motivators — guys like Draymond Green or Gary Payton, who want their opponents to talk crap, because that ensures their own engagement in a game.
— Greg Hanlon, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023 -
Belly up to a blackjack, poker, or craps table and try your luck, or stand back and observe someone else playing — somehow, even just watching casino action is a thrill in Las Vegas.
— Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 21 July 2023 -
The only thing allowed here is wall-to-wall jingoistic patriotism—the kind where there's no room for anything except God, the United States of America, and bombing the crap out of the enemy.
— Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2024 -
On August 23, after raiding a craps game led by Black men, police assaulted a Black woman, then arrested a soldier who tried to intervene.
— Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023 -
Blackjack, baccarat, European roulette (especially French), craps and poker all have betting strategies that help lower the randomised risk and give you a fighting chance.
— Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2024
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