How to Use crook in a Sentence

crook

noun

• The squirrel sat in the crook of the tree.
• He thinks politicians are just a bunch of crooks.
• The line must rest in the crook of your finger against the rod.
  — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 30 July 2023
• The more crooks know about the layout, the better for them.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2024
• And in the crook of her arm was the biggest Bible ever made.
  — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2022
• This crook might have needed more oomph to get the job done.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2022
• Gene—now even more of a cocky crook than Saul 2.0—doesn’t just take his time.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• And in the crook of her left arm nestled her one-month-old son, Frankie.
  — Lynne Sherwin, cleveland, 8 Apr. 2022
• The app seeks to block users from falling for an email or text from crooks.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 10 July 2023
• Neither had the tourists, who have long stopped for lunch in this city, nestled in the crook of I-91 and I-95.
  — Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• The odds go down that a crook will intercept your mail.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2023
• The people of the state of Texas are entitled to know whether their top cop is a crook.
  — Brittanie Shey, Chron, 1 June 2023
• Much of the time, what each uncovers is the shadowy crooks and swells of the other.
  — Audrey Wollen, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
• Here are steps to fight back against crooks who are after your cash.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 14 Sep. 2023
• The talk is fast, smooth, and the crook has an answer for everything.
  — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2021
• The guy ended up being a crook, even though he’s not charged with a crime yet.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 11 Apr. 2022
• This whole process, then, wasn’t just a matter of getting to the Rose Bowl, by hook or crook.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Nov. 2021
• The crook of your hand between those two fingers should butt up against the back of the dorsal fin.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 24 May 2023
• Wear it over your shoulder or in the crook of your arms—it'll look chic either way.
  — Sophie Dweck, townandcountrymag.com, 13 May 2023
• The metal ball heaved from the crook of your neck demanded strength.
  — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 28 June 2022
• What’s different was out back, in the crook of a treeline.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 3 Nov. 2022
• The crook fastened around the unfortunate act to drag it off the stage.
  — WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022
• Specialty crooks went straight to the caboose of out-of-town trains.
  — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• And that’s why these crooks are lying in these text messages.
  — Gabrielle Vitali, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2023
• The young twigs die and remain on the tree, bending over to form a shepherd's crook as the disease moves down the branch.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 June 2022
• But in a furry friend that fits in the crook of your arm, what could be more appealing?
  — Urmee Khan, CNN, 20 Mar. 2023
• Direct your coughs and sneezes into the crook of your elbow.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 13 Aug. 2020
• Not every crook has a skilled mimic on call to ape the brushstrokes of Titian or Twombly.
  — Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2022
• Of course, my mother snuggled my head into the crook of her neck!
  — Ellen Pall, The New York Review of Books, 25 Aug. 2020
• When the socialites, who are the target of a high-profile kidnapping ring, refuse to go through with the trip, the brothers disguise themselves as the pair to flush out the crooks.
  — Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024