Sentence examples for crooked around from inspiring English sources

"I think I'm going to come down," one man gasped, his fingers crooked around a red stone about 20 feet up.

The "I" that soon had her leg crooked around his shoulder, pushing him away, but he leaned into that so it felt like I was playing him in and out of me at exactly my own speed.

Man, I wish I had that!' He looked fondly into the distance, as if trying to see a ghost, while I imagined Mapplethorpe in his fetish gear with his little finger crooked around one of the foundation's dainty demitasses.

"The village is 'only two streets wide,'" the WPA Guide described it in 1937, "but for nearly four miles it skirts the inner shore of the Cape; and from there out, Long Point extends like a sandy finger crooked around the harbor".

Growing up queer in Muslim Indonesia as a member of the Chinese ethnic minority, he knows outsider status many times over, and it's through this canted lens, the perspective of someone who's standing upright in a room that's crooked around him, that the works in his new show, Don't Hold on to Your Bones, explore the world. .

They're the biggest crooks around".

"It may be straight, it may be crooked, it may bend around buildings along the way but it's a real possibility," he said.

He crooked the arm around the wiry little man into a tight hug and said he had been his seat companion on the flight.

He crooked the arm around the briefcase into a tight hug and said that it contained the unfinished manuscript of his new book, "Across the River and into the Trees".

It's been bugging me, too, the hordes in Midtown wandering around with elbows crooked, carrying their precious coffees and lattes — always with a slightly distracted air, as if looking for a conversation group to join.

Her brown plastic glasses hang crooked on a cord around her neck.