Example Sentences

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Nez, for example, doesn’t have crooked teeth and wears glasses, unlike the actual suspect, his attorneys said.

From Washington Times • Jan. 2, 2020

Other states have crooked politicians, but it’s been ahead of the curve in turning public corruption into baroque spectacle.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2011

I have crooked toes from wearing boots that didn't fit me because that's all I could afford as a kid.

From The Guardian • Mar. 21, 2010

You could never begin to operate if you didn't have crooked bankers, crooked C.P.A.s, crooked brokers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Polished maces are their weapons, and these it is their wont to fit with a tough thong; a target covers their left side, and for close fighting they have crooked swords.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil