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 top people in the FBI, headed by Comey, were crooked!
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 26 Apr. 2018
  • There are crooked cops, and feds, and gangbangers, and an orc mafia.
    — Jordan Hoffman, HWD, 20 Dec. 2017
  • But the top people in the FBI, headed by Comey, were crooked.
    — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Get ready for a lot more facial hair and crooked smiles!
    — Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 26 July 2018
  • As a result, our eyes were large, wide-set, and crooked.
    — Ariel Henley, Allure, 12 Mar. 2019
  • 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
  • Jamie Hulit took one look at six-year-old Beaux’s crooked, smooshed face and fell in love.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 26 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Look for anything loose, crooked, damaged or scratched.
    — Harrison Jones, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
  • As a side sleeper who constantly wakes up with a crooked neck and often back pain, this was a huge plus.
    — Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 27 Feb. 2025

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