crocked

Example Sentences

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Portland host San Jose after poor showing against Dallas All of which meant Portland went into their midweek game against Dallas without their crocked midfielder – and how they missed him.

From The Guardian • Apr. 15, 2016

Fletcher has scored a third of their goals and he is crocked until August.

From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2013

Former Cardiff right-back Adam Matthews had been handed his competitive debut for Celtic in place of the injured Mark Wilson, while Daniel Majstorovic was in for the crocked Glenn Loovens.

From BBC • Aug. 7, 2011

Leaning against a wall in the weighing room after his last ride, he played down the threat of that fall, saying he knew immediately that he had not been crocked again.

From The Guardian • Mar. 13, 2011

That afternoon I crocked my leg at footer and have been a hobbler ever since with first an elephantine calf and now a watery knee, which however, like the Tigris, gets less watery daily.

From Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years by Palmer, Robert Stafford Arthur