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"Crock" in a Sentence (22 examples)
Believe me, everything he's told you is a crock.
Ziri asked Rima if he could borrow her crock pot.
What a crock!
1590-96, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, 1750, The Works of Spenser, Volume 3, page 181, Therefore the Vulgar did about him flock / And cluster thick unto his leaſings vain; / Like fooliſh Flies about an Honey-Crock; / In hope by him great Benefit to gain, / And uncontrolled Freedom to obtain.
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He was getting very proud of the way he had learned to manage his game leg, and it occurred to him that here was a chance of testing his balance. […] “Not so bad that, for a crock,” he told himself, as he lay full length in the sun watching the faint line of the Haripol hills overtopping the ridge of Crask.
He was in love with a girl, whose full name he did not tell me, and whom he had not seen for two years. She was a Lady Diana Someone, so much I knew, very lovely, a sort of relation, and he believed he had a chance if only the doctors could do something to help his asthma. “Can′t ask a girl to marry a crock.”
Girl: "Will you always be a bit of a crock?" Man: "According to my doctor, no." Girl: "I was afraid you looked bad-tempered because you were crocked up for life."
old crocks race
That's a bunch of crock.
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The story is a crock.
1709, Isaac Bickerstaff (Richard Steele), The Tatler, 1822, Alexander Chalmers (editor), The Tatler, 2007 Facsimile Edition, page 12, I then inquired for the person that belonged to the petticoat; and, to my great surprise, was directed to a very beautiful young damsel, with so pretty a face and shape, that I bid her come out of the crowd, and seated her upon a little crock at my left hand.
Mumford (1970) noted that the terms ‘crock’, ‘gomer’, and ‘turkey’, were sometimes utilized by interns to designate different types of undesirable patients, and sometimes used synonymously.
"That last time I brought down Barry I crocked him. He's in his study now with a sprained ankle. ..."
Thousands of cars crocked by dodgy fuel
Ferreira ... peremptorily expunges England’s World Cup chances by crocking Wayne Rooney.
thus producing a permanent, definite color thereon which will not fade or crock, and at the same time using up all of the coloring matter.
Colored fabrics should be dried separately for the first few times to prevent crocking (rubbing off of dye).
In leather garments, lining also prevents crocking of color onto skin or garments worn underneath.
The pots should be crocked for drainage to one-half their depth and the plants made moderately firm in the compost, as already indicated...
She filled the pail and carried it down to the springhouse to crock it and leave it to cool.
[…] “here I stand talking to mere Mooncalfs, with Uncle Pumblechook waiting, and the mare catching cold at the door, and the boy grimed with crock and dirt from the hair of his head to the sole of his foot!”
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