Sentence examples for crock from inspiring English sources
noun
A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
Whereas in his Edwards sit-down, Obama dug himself in deeper, getting into a fight with Elizabeth about health care, insisting that his plan is universal (a position she considers a crock), high-handedly criticizing Clinton's plan (and by extension Edwards's) for its insurance mandateIt's still not clear what Mr Edwards gains by holding back.
Her co-dancer described her claims as "a crock".
Mr Morgan, not one to mince his words, says the review is a politically motivated "crock of crap".Ho-Chunk was born from the fear that gambling money the Winnebago have a small casino in Iowa would dwindle.
"That's a crock," he says, alluding to his own experience as a father of three.
Some people have even attributed the markets' mid-week bounce to glee over Mr Spitzer, rather than to the $200 billion shovelled their way by the Fed.But distaste for Mr Spitzer or keen pleasure in seeing a hypocrite hoist with his own petard should blind no one to the fact that the whole affair is a crock of nonsense.
Bodley Head; £20.In this section Mind the gap Only and lonely Ties that bind From rock to crock Riding the crest ReprintsTWO months ago Geoff Barrow, the instrumentalist for Portishead, an award-winning British rock group, revealed on Twitter that 34m streams of his music had earned him precisely £1,700 $$2,604) after tax.
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The star of "Baked Eggs" turns out to be a three-square-inch cube of meltingly tender short rib that sits solo on one side of the plate, abandoned by the mini-crock of nondescript potato-and-shredded-beef hash topped with two extremely baked eggs.
After four or five glasses of wine, I am able to overcome my usual food-finickiness and eat half a crock-pot of whatever my wife has made for dinner, and then a couple of baskets of leftover Easter candy.
Milk poured for cats In a rank puddle-place, splash-darkened mould Around the terra cotta water-crock Ground of being.
From a culinary point of view, it was also ideal for the peasant cook: stoke the oven with a cord of wood in the morning, put in an iron pot of solyanka, and, while you worked in the field, the slowly decreasing temperature of the oven would take care of the rest — a pre-modern Crock-Pot.
