Sentence examples for crook off from inspiring English sources

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Out came Andy Robinson's crook, off came Blair, and within two minutes of entering the fray, Glasgow scrum-half Pyrgos - who made his debut as a late replacement against the All Blacks - had zipped through a line-out from Kelly Brown's tap-back to score a try that energised his forwards, fellow backs and the entire occasion.

David Warner was then caught by Crook off the last ball of the day as the tourists reached 13-1 in reply.

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/ crooked, off-center or askew, as in, "That wonky cake pan I picked up in Paris makes each slice a different size — perfect for the office anorexic and binger alike!"; slightly odd or eccentric, i.e., "His pink folding bicycle is a little wonky, but he won't leave home without it".

By profession, he is a crook, ripping off gullible citizens with his partner, Frank Sam Rockwelll).

The counter-intuitive casting of British actor Owen as a ruthless crook pays off, and there are some strong performances from a multinational cast that includes Marion Cotillard, Zoe Saldana and Mila Kunis.

There's a neat pattern to the heists his endearing crooks pull off — although the guys, who think of themselves as working stiffs, prefer to call them "jobs".

Joe Westerman gave Hull an early lead after collecting a one-handed offload from Ben Crooks and Daniel Holdsworth then made it 8-0 with a penalty goal before Crooks finished off a spectacular 70-metre score started by Tom Lineham.

(The "Die Hard" scenario, in which crooks take off with the Fed's gold in dump trucks, wouldn't happen, he said. "Even if you could load up a dump truck with gold, where are you going to go? What are you going to do? Sometimes driving around the block in Manhattan can take an hour").

Ever wonder how corporate crooks pull off high-profile computer break-ins?

"Small people had to dig into their own pockets to bail out these banks, and then see people, some of whom turned out to be literally crooks, walk off with their money, so of course they are angry".

The crooks made off with my wife's watch, but they left mine behind.

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