Sentence examples for to crook from inspiring English sources

The towers in this model stand 6.8 feet tall, large enough to convey something of the three-dimensional impact of the trade center, beginning with the fact that you have to crook your neck slightly to see the top of the towers.

Police went to Crook's house in Lincoln and discovered the bodies under wheelie bins in the overgrown back garden.

Near to Crook o'Moor Swing Bridge was Medge Hall peat works, which exported peat from the moors by railway until it was closed in 1966.

The Weardale Extension Railway ran from Waskerley on the Wear & Derwent to Crook on the BA&WR and included the Sunniside Incline worked by a stationary engine.

According to Crook, Burges "supported his roofs with a considerable body of examples of doubtful validity; the truth was that he wanted them for their architectural effect".

The north of Somerset is dominated by the tableland of the Mendip Hills, an area of outstanding natural beauty, stretching from Frome in the east to Crook Peak in the west, with outliers of Bleadon Hill and Brean Down as well as Steep Holm in the Bristol Channel.

When Roosevelt was asked why he had turned to a "crook" to run the S.E.C., he famously replied, "Takes one to catch one".

Nov. 5 American Express pays.03 of 1 percent of its gross revenue to crooks.

Medical records are worth more to crooks than credit-card numbers.

There, without warning, she testified, "Jamali held my head to Crooks" and forced her to give him oral sex.

And for those accustomed to crooks in every corner of public life, English law is an object of reverence.