Examples of 'crook' in a sentence
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The man is a crook and a liar.
Donaldson was a petty crook with a string of previous offences.
She hid her face in the crook of her arm.
He crooked his finger: 'Come forward,' he said.
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She fitted naturally and comfortably into the crook of my arm like the missing piece
of a puzzle.
But one of the crooks then swipes all the gold for himself.
We were in silhouette as the three shepherds with our crooks.
The crooks used gloves to make sure they left no fingerprints.
But this one was more than just a petty crook no one would miss.
Suggest he is a liar and a crook.
But get it done by hook or by crook.
YOU'D expect the immigration surge to cause a rise in crime by foreign crooks.
The police must wonder why they bother to catch the crooks in the first place.
Crooks are stealing the identities of real legal practices to con you and your solicitor.
The crooks used forged residency documents and job references to claim huge handouts.
And for this they have been made to appear like petty crooks.
Bag a ticket by hook or by crook.
The case follows other attacks by freed foreign crooks.
Most of my clients were harmless small-time crooks or businessmen who had committed
fraud or theft.
We want another president, not a crook and a thief.
Instead, he offers a reward for turning in the crooks.
There is at least one notorious crook protected by his seniority and almost certain
to be re-elected.
Ministers highlighted five recent cases as proof they are catching welfare crooks
who cost taxpayers 1.2billion a year.
I cradled her head in the crook of my elbow and rocked her slowly.
Straight as a shepherd 's crook.
I bet he crooks his little finger when he drinks a cup of tea '.
Place bag in crook of arm.
Tuck your left knee into the crook of right elbow and hug the knee.
These are a bunch of crooks.
They see crooks where they want heroes.
Should they be doing more to put the crooks behind bars?
We sleep in tangled fluorescent light sharing the crook of your arm.
They are trying to be crooked.
Now she had a bundle in the crook of each arm.
Yet all that was said about him back home was that he was a crook.
This is what crooks are looking for when they send their business offshore.
It sits lofty artists alongside crooks and charlatans.
My dad could cradle him in the smallest crook of his arm.
When is a feed into a scrum crooked?
The brotherhood that protected the thugs and crooks is long gone.
He can not answer the question without identifying himself as a fool or a crook.
People being transported in handcuffs also can not cough into the crook of their elbow.
It was happy days if you were a crook in those first few months.
He is a little crook sometimes.
His line seems to be that conniving with crooks is only wrong when one is caught.
He was in the business of getting the oil to the west by hook or by crook.
Crook was successful but unfulfilled.
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