crook

Elizabeth was originally depicted as a shepherdess with a crook and a lamb.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

It was late, and the store was out of disposable bags, so I tucked some of the loot into my dance bag and cradled the rest in the crook of my arm.

From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026

The picture, taken by Millie Pilkington, shows the King at his Sandringham estate in Norfolk, holding a shepherd's crook.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025

Hemlock is a small town located in the crook of the Michigan mitten, between the thumb and the fingers.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025

It harbored, in the crook of its inner curve, a particular shell that could be found nowhere else on the beach.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

In the final entry on her blog, posted barely half an hour before she was killed, Caruana Galizia wrote: "There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate".

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

"Those were all written for a TV show, for something that was not for me, so Fantasize comes out, crazy, was stolen... These pirates, crooks, illegal!"

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

“I mean, they need to be able to do that. But they just, you know, they need to pay more attention to the crooks than people trying to make an honest living.”

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

The innocent-faced O’Connor excels at crooks and suckers and fittingly, his Jud describes himself as “young, dumb and full of Christ.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025

They were common among crooks in the Barrel who didn’t want to get caught in a dark alley, but couldn’t be bothered to lug around lanterns.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

He goes on to explain why he isn’t currently playing, lifting a crooked finger to the camera and saying he is injured.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Obviously such financial freedom was possible—but only if you were a guy who knew how the crooked game was played.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

In the same over, Abdullah Shafique's crooked bat resulted in an edge to Root at first slip.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

In 2019, the IRS told Murrin she owed unpaid tax, penalties and interest for income-tax returns the crooked accountant filed from 1993 to 1999.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

The school nurse was a round-cheeked, dark-skinned woman with cat-eye glasses and a quick, crooked smile.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

Short as trees go, it has a hunkered-down look, its branches starting low to the ground and crooking and knotting as they rise.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2021

He was having an almost violently good time, it appeared, kissing women on the cheek, crooking his arm around his friends’ necks.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 24, 2019

A trio of elderly gentlemen, seated outside at a cafe, urge us on, crooking thumbs in the uphill direction.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2019

So police officers, crooking a single finger, have ordered scores of drivers to the curb for breaking the law and issued them a fine for $130.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2012

She ran to the perambulator and rocked it gently, crooking her thin, twisted, old fingers at John and Barbara until they stopped crying and began to laugh.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers