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Explore Crooked through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like contorted or straight. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.

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Crooked meaning

simple past and past participle of crook

Using Crooked

  • The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of crook
  • Useful related words include: contorted, straight, dishonest, bending.
  • In the example corpus, crooked often appears in combinations such as: the crooked, crooked house, and crooked.

Context around Crooked

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.2 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 9 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Crooked

  • In this selection, "crooked" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, few, iconic, crazed, house, creek and neighbours stand out and add context to how "crooked" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a few crooked dances have and are called crooked and are. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "crooked" sits close to words such as ants, assertions and astounding, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with crooked

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Further images of the destruction & massive amounts of ice shoved onshore in Crooked Creek. (14 words)

If a bull market truly is starting, there will be a crooked path ahead. (14 words)

If you want to see the dirtiest, most crooked homo sapiens, go to Malawi. (14 words)

A number of posts have been shared by members of the 'Save the Crooked House' Facebook group showing items such as bricks and the gold letters of the pub's sign up for sale by fast-acting 'looters'. (38 words)

In a Facebook post, a spokesperson for the museum said: “The fire at The Crooked House, Himley, is obviously devastating news, after the recent sale seemed to offer a future for the building, albeit with a new use. (38 words)

Cassie Erks shoos off the back of her duct tape dress next to her date, Zak King, dressed as Lil' Red, before the start of Adams High School's prom at Crooked Creek Golf Club in 2006. (37 words)

Example sentences (20)

It is easy to overlook another’s sorrow, we can only ask each other’s forgiveness and love our crooked neighbours with our crooked hearts.

Tunes not 64 beats long are called "crooked" and are almost never used for contra dancing, although a few crooked dances have been written as novelties.

A blaze at an iconic Staffordshire pub, the Crooked House, has engulfed the building as firefighters battle to save it.

A historical "wonky pub" has gone up in in a suspected arson attack just a few minutes from where the iconic Crooked House once stood.

A number of posts have been shared by members of the 'Save the Crooked House' Facebook group showing items such as bricks and the gold letters of the pub's sign up for sale by fast-acting 'looters'.

An update posted on the pub's Facebook page on Thursday evening (July 27) said: "The Crooked House has been sold.

A reboot feature of “Hellboy: The Crooked Man,” will begin production in March, announced Saturday.

But now, at age 72, the greed-crazed crooked cop Giulino has found a district-court judge who decreed that the kleptomaniac cop should get his bloated state pension back.

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Cassie Erks shoos off the back of her duct tape dress next to her date, Zak King, dressed as Lil' Red, before the start of Adams High School's prom at Crooked Creek Golf Club in 2006.

Crooked Joe Biden was in a jokey mood on Sunday as investigators left his garage where they found multiple large boxes stashed with highly classified top secret material that could compromise national security.

Crooked Stave hadn’t made an amber though, so Oberle and the staff began talking about brewing one as a small-batch release.

Democracy ought not to function on the dictates or within the whims and caprices of privileged few, who by crooked means assume power and authority.

Further images of the destruction & massive amounts of ice shoved onshore in Crooked Creek.

He heads the Grindle Firewise Program (sponsored by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources) and is a member of the Crooked Lake/Mountain Lions Club, having held many positions in that organization.

He-Man action figures and other toys from his childhood fill every inch of the shelves in his studio alongside his own miniatures, like a basketball court with a crooked hoop.

If a bull market truly is starting, there will be a crooked path ahead.

If you want to see the dirtiest, most crooked homo sapiens, go to Malawi.

In a Facebook post, a spokesperson for the museum said: “The fire at The Crooked House, Himley, is obviously devastating news, after the recent sale seemed to offer a future for the building, albeit with a new use.

In contrast, the dollar subsidy was an expensive egotistical farce that fattened crooked public officials, their girlfriends and opportunistic cronies in banking and business.

In order to protect habitat and to maintain safety, visitors are asked to not walk through the Crooked River.

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Common combinations with crooked

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "crooked" in a sentence?
An example: "It is easy to overlook another’s sorrow, we can only ask each other’s forgiveness and love our crooked neighbours with our crooked hearts." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "crooked" from authentic English texts.
What does "crooked" mean?
Crooked means: simple past and past participle of crook
What are synonyms of "crooked"?
Common synonyms of "crooked" include: contorted, straight, dishonest, bending, skew-whiff, wonky, lopsided, cockeyed. Plus 7 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "crooked" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "crooked", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.