Sentence examples for crooked element from inspiring English sources

This new crooked element threatens Amsterdam's status as a global marketplace, because bad business kills good business.

Crooked elements in the C.I.A. are battling an arms dealer for control of the Zephyr, and Roy, needing to escape people who will kill him in order to get it, uses June as a mule, and then, presumably just because he likes having her around, drugs her again and again, carrying her off first to an island in the middle of nowhere, and then to Salzburg and Seville.

The anticorruption campaign against Karzai's administration has become a web even more tangled because crooked elements within his inner circle are being paid off by the (ahem) CIA, according to Afghan and American officials.

Researchers had seen strong hints of this asymmetry in Supernova 1987A, notes astrophysicist Stan Woosley of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and computer simulations had suggested that massive instabilities in the first few seconds of a supernova blast should create "crooked fingers" of heavy elements that poke through the overlying star.

How crooked is too crooked?

Who will hold crooked politicians and crooked financiers to account?

Crooked loans.

Or crooked.

Crooked doctors.

Crooked Still, folk.

Crooked Still, country.