Crude

//kɹuːd//

"Crude" in a Sentence (19 examples)

The method was crude, but very effective.

This is a crude material imported from Malaysia.

This figure is a mirror of the decrease in imports of crude oil.

When refined, crude oil yields many products.

The crude oil price is falling further.

I was offended by her crude manners.

His crude jokes made Jane angry.

Crude persuasion is to persistently egg someone on.

You think someone coarser than you is "crude", and someone higher class than you to be "putting on airs".

It is only recently that crude oil has come to be used to make chemical products.

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a crude shelter

a crude estimate

a crude guess

a crude truth

a crude remark

You shouldn't use such crude language when talking to the bank manager.

At first, there’s something almost disconcertingly crude about the sasquatch skins.

Her mete was very crude, She had not wel endude; […]

The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).

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