Explore Cronies through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Cronies in a sentence
Cronies meaning
plural of crony
Using Cronies
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of crony
- In the example corpus, cronies often appears in combinations such as: his cronies, and cronies, cronies and.
Context around Cronies
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cronies
- In this selection, "cronies" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, parties, alleged, own, hired, pockets and michael stand out and add context to how "cronies" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a few cronies and jaatis and and his cronies a thing. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cronies" sits close to words such as abstinence, adventurer and alters, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cronies
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Surprised TFG never tried giving one to one of his cronies. (11 words)
No politicians or their relatives and cronies gained money from the plane. (12 words)
Adams and one of his cronies hired each other’s girlfriends for high-paying positions. (15 words)
After an unspoken initial attraction, their dangerous flirtation turns into an illicit tryst at a time when McCarthy and his cronies were grouping communists together with so-called deviants – a witch-hunt that pushes them even further back in the closet. (41 words)
In April, Disney sued the gay-hating governor for weaponizing his political power against the company after he stripped the Orlando-based conglomerate of its special tax privileges and replaced its oversight board with his own cronies. (37 words)
Bryan and two other alleged cronies, Michael Whitely and Brian Morris, were also found guilty of facilitating the gang’s murder of a Rastafarian man on Jones Avenue in Spanish Town, St Catherine, in November 2017. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Adams and one of his cronies hired each other’s girlfriends for high-paying positions.
After an unspoken initial attraction, their dangerous flirtation turns into an illicit tryst at a time when McCarthy and his cronies were grouping communists together with so-called deviants – a witch-hunt that pushes them even further back in the closet.
All you people in Government are concerned are to fill your and your cronies pockets and fly all over the planet 1st class.
And all the grants that Head Coach dished out of the Ministry of Finance to his damn family, friends and cronies.
And the answer is: tax cuts for corporations and the rich and contracts for cronies, while public services have been decimated.
Away with political parties, cronies and incompetent politicians and the silly games they play with our lives.
Bryan and two other alleged cronies, Michael Whitely and Brian Morris, were also found guilty of facilitating the gang’s murder of a Rastafarian man on Jones Avenue in Spanish Town, St Catherine, in November 2017.
Cronies will insist, particularly now he is dead, that he wasn't really so bad.
He was one public officer who had no qualms about bending backwards to satisfy the interests of Buhari’s cronies, popularly known as the cabal.
In April, Disney sued the gay-hating governor for weaponizing his political power against the company after he stripped the Orlando-based conglomerate of its special tax privileges and replaced its oversight board with his own cronies.
In contrast, the dollar subsidy was an expensive egotistical farce that fattened crooked public officials, their girlfriends and opportunistic cronies in banking and business.
It is because with the system we give a lot of power to the President and his cronies a thing that imbues executive arrogance in them,” he said.
Jonathan and Nancy have a history dating back to season 1. Nancy (Natalia Dyer) ends up befriending Jonathan (Charlie Heaton), who's being bullied by Steve (Joe Keery) and his fellow popular cronies.
Mr Ward became convinced that Jonathan Moi, the son of the then president, brutally raped Julie and then ordered his drunken cronies to dispose of her body.
No politicians or their relatives and cronies gained money from the plane.
Start small and build up a crew to take down the mischievous Mr. Moon and his cronies across a challenging variety of action-platformer missions.
Surprised TFG never tried giving one to one of his cronies.
To do that, he hollowed out state institutions, placed loyalists in key positions, wiped out most civil society organizations, and enriched his cronies to create a small circle of loyalists around him.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group of mercenaries, is a Russian oligarch who has long been one of Putin's cronies.
After 1990s, many of our friends felt that India need to ‘liberalise’ but they only meant privatise the nattional resources to a few cronies and jaatis.
Common combinations with cronies
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- his cronies 43×
- and cronies 15×
- cronies and 9×
- their cronies 8×
- political cronies 7×
- cronies in 6×
- cronies to 5×
- cronies are 5×
- cronies were 3×
- cronies while 3×