crooked
Example Sentences
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Every step of the weathered wood squeaked, scrooped or screeched as if in ill-omen.
From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel
They heard the car snort and move away as the heavy bolts scrooped in their ancient grooves of stone.
From When Winter Comes to Main Street by Overton, Grant Martin
We could count the rivets in her plates as we scrooped by, and the little drops of dew gathered below them.
From Traffics and Discoveries by Kipling, Rudyard
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