Sentence examples for crook as from inspiring English sources
But enough clues are dropped to suggest that Giovanni rises by crook as well as by hook.
(Mr. Rickson directed Mr. Crook as the forlorn playwright Konstantin in the Kristin Scott Thomas-led "Seagull" on Broadway in 2008).
Gerard Horan as a publican, Mackenzie Crook as a wannabe DJ and Danny Kirrane as the treacherous Davey are all first-rate.
And though there is no suspicion that Mr Zedillo is a crook as some of his predecessors were, his reforms have not gone to the heart of the system.
The year she graduated from Rada she appeared in Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla; in a Brit comedy with Mackenzie Crook; as the lead in Tess of the D'Urbervilles; and as Bond girl Strawberry Fields in Quantum of Solace.
Joe Ripp is as far from being a crook as anyone you'll ever know," said John Huey, the editor in chief of Time Inc., who also described the complaint as "almost Kafkaesque".
In fact, there are so many thefts that it may take the crooks as long as a year or two to get around to draining your bank account.
This created the vacuum into which crooks, as well as legitimate financial players, leaped.
If your strip is not sewn straight, the tapestry will hang crooked as well.
A garment that doesn't fit tightly around the legs, such as a loose skirt, shouldn't pull itself crooked as much.
He said, citing Kant's dictum: "Our views of the newspapers depend upon our own views, and they are as crooked as the crooked timber of humanity from which no straight thing was ever made".
