crotched

Example Sentences

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For Pianist Peter Serkin, musical nirvana is being scrooched up in a recording studio retaping and re-retaping portions of some concerto.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rout of Ma Thermometer mercury scrooched down in its tubes, showed 4� below Zero.

From Time Magazine Archive

‘Father, you been scrooched over the desk since five o’clock. You got no business to be up. You ought to stayed in bed until time for the to-do.’

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

Then all of a sudden his face scrooched up, and in a choky voice he ordered me to leave and tell Mama not to let nobody come in on him.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

Lightfoot was scrooched up in the corner of the bench, swaying with the motion of the train.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns