How do you use Crookback in a sentence? See 2 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like hunchback or humpback, plus the exact meaning.
Crookback in a sentence
Crookback meaning
A crooked back, or a person with such a back; a hunchback.
Synonyms of Crookback
Using Crookback
- The main meaning on this page is: A crooked back, or a person with such a back; a hunchback.
- Useful related words include: crookbacked, hunchback, humpback, unfit.
Context around Crookback
- Average sentence length in these examples: 34.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Crookback
- In this selection, "crookback" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 34.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, richard stand out and add context to how "crookback" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and a crookback and play richard crookback in 1602. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "crookback" sits close to words such as aabb, aabc and aacta, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with crookback
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Ben Jonson is also known to have written a play Richard Crookback in 1602, but it was never published and nothing is known about its portrayal of the king. (29 words)
Kendall, Richard the Third, p. 537 Six years after Richard's death, in 1491, a schoolmaster named William Burton, on hearing a defence of Richard, launched into a diatribe, accusing the dead King of being 'a hypocrite and a crookback. (40 words)
Kendall, Richard the Third, p. 537 Six years after Richard's death, in 1491, a schoolmaster named William Burton, on hearing a defence of Richard, launched into a diatribe, accusing the dead King of being 'a hypocrite and a crookback. (40 words)
Ben Jonson is also known to have written a play Richard Crookback in 1602, but it was never published and nothing is known about its portrayal of the king. (29 words)
Example sentences (2)
Ben Jonson is also known to have written a play Richard Crookback in 1602, but it was never published and nothing is known about its portrayal of the king.
Kendall, Richard the Third, p. 537 Six years after Richard's death, in 1491, a schoolmaster named William Burton, on hearing a defence of Richard, launched into a diatribe, accusing the dead King of being 'a hypocrite and a crookback.