The Sorgues, beneath me, reaching the plain, flung itself crookedly across the meadows, like an un- rolled blue ribbon.
Once I drew the map of Italy on his blessed old shoulders with crayon and often French verbs ran crookedly up the seam of his coat, for the horse changed his gait now and then.
The figure on the table wore rough knickerbockers, high, rather muddy boots, a loose jacket, and a cap set crookedly on the head.
This branch of the cave went on crookedly with occasionally strange angles and sharp curves.
The trees of the wood came close up behind it; in front it was shut out from view below by the branches of a few pine trees which grew crookedly from a precarious foothold amongst the ledges of rock beneath.
The Sorgues, beneath me, reaching the plain, flung itself crookedly across the meadows like an unrolled blue ribbon.
Gianapolis sat alone in the place, smoking a cigarette, and gazing crookedly at the image on the ivory pedestal.
The gaze of his left eye crookedly sought the face of the butler.
But almost immediately the Air Ministry official grinnedcrookedly and sighed.
Dave wiped sweat and sea water from his face and grinned crookedly at the pilot at the controls.
He appeared to have had the worst of the exchange, for when I looked again he was sitting, with one leg crumpled crookedly under him, propped up against a bitt.
Then, just as she had written the heading very crookedly across the top of the page, she found that the pen she had picked up was a quill, and possessed the most entrancing capacity for making splutters.
Miss Finlayson took it, and glanced at the title that was written crookedly across the top of the page.
His bandy legs sprawled consequentially, his nose was redder than a coal of fire, his prominent eyes rolled crookedly upon us, and his left hand swept behind him the attempt of Mary Kate to frustrate his entrance.
Mrs. Wragge dropped crookedly into a chair, and beat her disorderly hands on her unsymmetrical knees, in utter forgetfulness of the captain's presence and the captain's terrible eye.
The veteran's eyes were bloodshot; his hand was heavy; his list slippers were twisted crookedly on his feet; and his body swayed to and fro on his widely parted legs.
THOSE WYMPS AGAIN There was great consternation in Fairyland, for it was suddenly discovered that the sun had been shining crookedly all the morning.
It is only because the sun shone crookedly on my christening day.
So it is all because the sun shone crookedly on my christening day!
His head laycrookedly on his chest; he breathed heavily, but peacefully, and his limbs seemed uninjured.
The mare jumped crookedly on to the bank, hung there for half a second, and launched herself into space, the launch being followed, appropriately, by a mighty splash.
He grinned crookedly at Warden, slight mockery in his gaze.
With this, and with a last outburst of tender protestation, crammed crookedly into a corner of the page, the letter ended.
The tone of the letter was feverish, and the handwriting wandered crookedly up and down in deplorable freedom from all proper restraint.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crookedly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: askance; awry; cockeyed; infamously
