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Example sentences for "crooking"

Lexicographically close words:
croodling; crook; crooked; crookedly; crookedness; crookit; crooks; crool; croon; crooned
  1. Alexey Alexandrovitch knitted his brows, and crooking his hands, he cracked his fingers.

  2. But Flamin turned his quivering face side-wise toward the waxen shadow of his friend and rigidly crooking his head away stared up at it.

  3. But it is well that such a virtue of crooking has its own places of exercise, and does not depend on chance.

  4. I in a burst of eloquence that charmed even myself, "sure I could sow you acres with it by the crooking of my little finger from the revenues of my estate at the Old Head of Kinsale.

  5. Slightly crooking his finger, so that the shaft could move freely, he drew the string backward and forward, with deep deliberation, over and over again.

  6. He also found that he could guide the arrow without crooking his finger around it.

  7. Not that the destination made any difference, for Frisbie would have gone quite as willingly to the ends of the earth at the crooking of Ford's finger.

  8. He became suddenly aware that his fingers were tensing and crooking like a thug's, and he knew the desire to kill.

  9. George regarded him silently, his nostrils distending and his lean fingers unconsciously crooking like an eagle's talons about to clutch.

  10. To look at Ward's face, you would have sworn that the man was doomed; but something held Ward's finger from crooking on the trigger; the man had his back turned squarely toward the gun.

  11. He pulled the trigger with a steady crooking of his forefinger and the whole gulch clamored with the noise.

  12. Dunn, stepping up to the counter, and crooking his finger upon his nose at a dumpling-faced Dutchman, who stood behind the counter, waiting for his man to name it.

  13. One little crooking of the trigger-finger and the lead had gone upon its errand.

  14. Just beyond the crooking elbow the dull red glow from a tiny fire gone to coals showed us two Indian sentries set to keep the pass.

  15. But when we came to peer again around the crooking elbow it would seem that the hurrying search party had fought our battle for us.

  16. The barracks and the stables were high, cherry-hued pyres, terrible enough to the eye, with their tops crooking northward in the wind.

  17. Whenever a brother trooper looked his way, he called him up by the crooking of a finger and whispered to him.

  18. But Vince did better than think: he tightened his grasp of the bulwark rail by crooking his hand, and softly extended one leg over the streak.

  19. The crooking line took the shape of a huge interrogation point.

  20. Poor Grandpa cowered in the farthest corner of the cabin, peeping out from behind one of the hammocks, as meek as a kitten, his tail crooking uneasily.

  21. I figure Phil has been crooking the dice on me.

  22. You damned skunk, are you accusin' me of crooking the throw of the coin?

  23. I am ahead with him now, in front of the horses, stepping up the crooking staircase of stones, sounding him on the weather and the way.

  24. These projections give a relish of local color to the crooking ways, intensified by the round-tiled roofs and by occasional red or blood-colored beams and doorposts.


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crooking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.