Example Sentences
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One of them, in a wee tartan skirt, strikes cricked and awkward poses, then gets it in the neck, mouthing the word “fashion” at the last gasp.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 14, 2019
I remember reading the fourth in the playground with my friend, both of us reading separate pages with our necks cricked.
From The Guardian • Jun. 24, 2017
The heads are disproportionately big, the hands claw-like, the limbs flaccid or cricked and skewed in defiance of anatomy to get across further expression or character.
From The Guardian • Jul. 10, 2010
If you are worried about getting a cricked neck, take a pillow case and stuff it with clothes at night.
From The Guardian • Jun. 21, 2010
The porch swing cricked five hundred times before Cat crawled under the covers next to her brother, and it was still cricking when she closed her eyes and fell asleep.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
