Sentence examples for a crook in from inspiring English sources

He was an undercover agent, but he's not a crook, in case you think I think he is".

"You think Al Sharpton is kind of like a crook in a sense?" the person posing as a supporter is heard asking Mr Garner's oldest daughter.

If you see a gate or a doorway at a crook in the road like the two at the end of Michalska Street, check if it's unlocked.

At the end, Iago seems not an evil enigma but – like many a crook in the dock – an inadequate with nothing to say.

But, within this broad populist form, he also deals seriously with the issue of to what extent a cop can become a crook in order to catch one.

From a crook in the cow's form stares a bald eagle, once-secular American iconography now as sanctified as the almighty dollar.

In another, Lancaster is a crook, involved in illegal business and unable to get his life in order.

Al Pacino, in perhaps his finest hour, plays a hapless crook in a public standoff, wrestling with racist cops, an asthmatic hostage, ravenous news media and, perhaps worst of all, no air-conditioning -- so he can pay for his lover's sex-change operation.

The film opens in Copenhagen on the 40th birthday of Torkild (Soren Pilmark), a crook deeply in debt to the ferocious gangster Eskimo (Peter Andersson), who forces him and his gang to crack a safe in a Greek diplomat's mansion.

His accomplishments during more than 60 years on the air also included impersonating Stalin and other world leaders on "March of Time"; speaking in two Woody Allen films, once as a voice at the bottom of a well; and playing a crook -- in a rare moment of professional visibility -- on the television soap opera "The Edge of Night".

Drivers negotiating the serious curves nearby may never notice Galloway's Country Kitchen Bake Shop, but the storefront business has occupied space in a crook of Harney Road in Scarsdale since 1962.