How to Use crooked in a Sentence

crooked

adjective

• The vendor engraved my first name on it, spelled it wrong, and wrote it crooked.
  — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 8 Sep. 2019
• Lombard Street, shown here, lays claim to being the most crooked street in the world.
  — George Stone, National Geographic, 5 Nov. 2019
• The crooked cop doesn’t seem worried about his current situation.
  — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 4 Oct. 2024
• My eyes close, knowing the crooked graffiti will get painted over by the city tomorrow.
  — Longreads, 7 Nov. 2019
• Blue Water Creek cuts a crooked path through a broad valley, its waters still pristine.
  — Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
• Over his career, Kane has convicted mobsters, crooked politicians and dozens of killers.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• Also walk through a 40-foot castle, tunnel, maze, crooked house and suspension bridge.
  — oregonlive, 1 Oct. 2019
• The most classic form of fraud is when crooked day care providers bill DHS for caring for children who weren’t there.
  — Ryan Faircloth, Twin Cities, 27 Oct. 2019
• For nearly 30 years Omar al-Bashir led a crooked and genocidal regime in Sudan.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• This was made possible by his crooked judge father (M. Emmet Walsh, in his final role).
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 18 Oct. 2024
• Tourists who want to drive down San Francisco’s crooked Lombard Street will not have to make reservations and pay a toll after all.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019
• SmileDirectClub said there are about 500 million people worldwide who have mildly crooked teeth and can afford its service.
  — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2019
• Set off on an Alpine journey from the foot of the Jungfrau to the crooked peak of the Matterhorn, and explore in myriad ways: by zip line, mountain bike, or canyoneering.
  — National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2019
• Just the sort of crooked path that makes sense for her.
  — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 7 June 2021
• The rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 17 Jan. 2022
• Was the 2020 election 'rigged,' 'so rigged' and 'crooked'?
  — Jane C. Timm, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
• The panthers had grown gaunt; their tails were crooked.
  — Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2021
• Treat Williams stars as a DEA agent on a crooked squad, roiled by guilt.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
• The demon lies within, the movie says with a bloody, crooked smile.
  — A.a. Dowd, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
• What does the Wolf think of the edifice crooked Bernie helped build?
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2021
• Ali spends his first night straightening the crooked art on the walls.
  — Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024
• Daily screeds from Trump about how crooked the judge was, how the whole thing is rigged against him.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 30 May 2024
• As plain as the crooked nose on his face, the depravity is the point.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
• In another, the car was parked crooked in the space (but still between the lines), and got towed.
  — Hartford Courant, 6 Sep. 2022
• Would my smile, with its crooked teeth, betray me as just a kid?
  — Emily Ziff Griffin, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2021
• And the offense put up a crooked number to secure a win.
  — Sam Blum, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2020
• The chicken with the crooked beak wanted nothing to do with them.
  — Martha McPhee, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
• The line connecting the two trades is crooked and winding.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2022
• The inside of her mouth is still a jumble of missing and crooked teeth.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2024
• The new sign is flimsy-looking and crooked, as if it had been hit with a strong wind.
  — The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024