Sentence examples for went crooked from inspiring English sources

Wherever one looked, the straight lines went crooked.

When one of her tremendous drives sails out of bounds, she turns to the crowd and explains, "I hit it straight but it went crooked"..

IT was, it seemed, the year when corporate America went crooked as it never had before, when chicanery took the place of integrity, when wrongdoing exploded in ways that could not have been anticipated.

Similar to the art project that seeks to "recreate the face of the entire city" made by his character William Hamilton-Sweeney, scion of a family of property tycoons who rejects his heritage in favour of the lure of a dirty needle and anonymous sex "down where the grid went crooked", Hallberg's novel is a meticulous rendering of the period and equally ambitious in scope.

A Californian in the White House (the first) had gone crooked.

There's the cross-eyed mask of tragedy; the sage face of wonder; and a weirdly clownish mug with her mouth and eyebrows going crooked in diagonal tandem, which looks like a portrait done by a child who would grow up to be a serial killer.

But the story has gone crooked, & I am left, and I cannot plead before the inexorable Mandos.

Shep has long cultivated a reputation as a straight-shooter, which can put him crossways when the more outspoken anchors at the network have gone crooked.

If your cut goes crooked when sawing, don't try to straighten it out.

All you need to do is screw the screw into the drywall (slowly, so as not to go crooked & making the hole wider than needed), and then back it out, then tap in your anchor, and insert the screw into the anchor.

"She'd go crook sometimes, 'Why you mucking about with that sort of stuff?