How to Use crooked in a Sentence

crooked

adjective

• 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
• There are some fine trees, the more crooked the better.
  — Kendra Wilson, Vogue, 21 May 2019
• Was the 2020 election 'rigged,' 'so rigged' and 'crooked'?
  — Jane C. Timm, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
• Sansa knows that the crooked queen is nothing to play with.
  — Ineye Komonibo, Marie Claire, 7 May 2019
• 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
• Lombard Street, shown here, lays claim to being the most crooked street in the world.
  — George Stone, National Geographic, 5 Nov. 2019
• 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
• The soft-spoken man with the crooked smile and bright blue eyes wants to change the way the world thinks about his father.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
• 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 vendor engraved my first name on it, spelled it wrong, and wrote it crooked.
  — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 8 Sep. 2019
• 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
• The toilet seat is crooked, leaving you sitting on the bowl.
  — Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• At first all that could be seen was a crooked pair of feet, hands emerged and seemed well enough preserved.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2023
• Look in the mirror — ensure that the glasses do not look crooked on your face.
  — Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 7 Dec. 2022
• Biles bounded off the mat at the end of a tumbling pass on floor and her block on her Cheng vault was crooked.
  — Jenna Fryer, Chron, 26 July 2021
• In 2022, a dog named Mr. Happy Face won the top prize, thanks in part to his crooked grin and stark, white mohawk.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 24 June 2023
• One eye is smaller than the other, my nose is crooked, my lips are weird.
  — Emily Maddick, Glamour, 30 Sep. 2024
• The crooked cop doesn’t seem worried about his current situation.
  — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 4 Oct. 2024
• Polls consistently show that many Americans think a lot of politicians are crooked.
  — Karlyn Bowman, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024