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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "crock" in a sentence

    crock example sentences

    crock


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    crocks


    1. “Howard, that's a crock and you know it!”


    2. Sometimes, when he listens to Ken when they're alone in the flat above Snuggle's, he thinks that maybe he should broaden his horizons, but he knows in his heart that his crock of gold lies at the end of the lane, not at the end of the rainbow


    3. What a total crock of shit! He’d heard exactly what she’d said


    4. Then she came out with huge cups of tea, and then she got butter on a silver plate, and a basket of dark bread, and a crock of jam


    5. Pinched for time? Plan ahead for a hectic week with comforting casseroles and prep-and-go dinners made in your slow cooker or crock pot


    6. Heat on low in crock pot for 4 hours


    7. "What a crock, Doc," Court said disdainfully


    8. Serve cold or warm on the lowest setting in a crock pot


    9. “What a crock!” she swore, her hands firmly clasped on top of her head as if to keep her body from blowing apart like an overheated teapot


    10. Cook in crock pot on high for 3 hours adding more beef broth if needed

    11. “Son, that’ s a crock of shit, and we both know it


    12. “What a crock of shit!”


    13. Century believes is a total crock, “I’m bothered by the fact that you failed to mention that Shadow is a walking electrical transformer with enough juice to deep fry a two ton elephant to the bone instantly


    14. Maybe he should have used the crock pot!


    15. Cut the chicken into strips and add all together in a crock pot


    16. Mix everything together with the meat in a crock pot


    17. "That's a crock of shit and you know it


    18. Ackerly popped the crock from the blanket and slammed it over the man’s head


    19. Put the whole mix into a jar or crock


    20. thing was a crock of shit and always has been

    21. What a crock of shit!’


    22. The wine tasting was a crock of shit


    23. What a crock of shit


    24. Finally he asked, "Does the store have a five-gallon clay crock full of sour pickles?"


    25. " Olin had also purchased a large covered earthenware crock of pickles, the "medicine jar of the Oregon Trail", being called that because it was noted that if people living upon extremely poor diets ate pickles they tended to be free of scurvy


    26. Too bad such a crock can’t be bagged inside the bag it was scribbled across


    27. Even though anyone who is not completely brain-dead knows this is a crock of shit: everyone still pursues the Protestant Dream of Success through Hard Work and Perseverance


    28. I have to hand it to them: at least their crock of shit is a new crock and not one of the same tired old ones I had been hearing for months


    29. The beauty of slow cooker or crock pot cooking rests in the versatility and flexibility the process provides for a time stressed cook


    30. The real strength of the crock pot in the kitchen is for slow cooking leaner and cheaper cuts of meat

    31. Susan had some kind of beef in the crock pot which she was planning to roast until


    32. And Lor-a-mussy me!" cried my sister, casting off her bonnet in sudden desperation, "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!"


    33. Hire some old crock, safety


    34. The husband had a heavy basket of vegetables on his back; the wife balanced on her shoulder a long pole bearing several live chickens, trussed; the boy had a heavy ham on his shoulder, and the girl a crock that probably contained salted butter


    35. As Ralph bent to pick up the butter crock that had felled Alan, he felt a sharp iron point stick into his arse


    36. Their large-veined udders hung ponderous as sandbags, the teats sticking out like the legs of a gipsy's crock; and as each animal lingered for her turn to arrive the milk oozed forth and fell in drops to the ground


    37. Crock of shit


    38. He dusted the white flour into an old cookie crock


    39. The Crock of Gold? Stephens


    40. The Charwoman’s Daughter (1912); The Crock of Gold (1912); Collected Poems (1926)

    41. "But look here, Semyon Ivanovitch," cried Zinovy Prokofyevitch, losing patience and interrupting the landlady, "you old fogey, you old crock, you silly fellow—are they making jokes with you now about your sister-in-law or examinations in dancing? Is that it? Is that what you think?"


    42. The paint on the floors was quite fresh, the workmen had left their things in the middle of the room: a small tub, some paint in an earthenware crock, and a big brush


    43. While our allies, the Portuguese, were holding part of the line to the left of Festubert, a Portuguese officer rode up on the most emaciated and broken-down old "crock" I had set eyes on


    1. Wendy's head crocked up as if she heard something then she stood up, `Maybe some other time


    2. Then they’d leave for a couple of days but keep on drinking and then they’d come back completely crocked and stand


    3. name and he was half crocked when he told me this story over whiskey


    4. In the first place, they were both slightly crocked


    1. As for the rest, the week in Amarynthos has proved to be really boring, since we've spent most of our time playing cards or chatting with the old crocks


    2. Various attractive-looking brown crocks are sold for the purpose


    3. Now she began producing covered crocks and kettles of various sizes


    4. Next they gave them in who had them half-withered and cracked; and many of them gave them in green and without crocks; and some green and with offshoots and fruits on the offshoots such as they had who went after being crowned into the tower


    5. He next examined the chipped stones and many amongst these were found to be black arid some to have great crocks


    6. Pack in crocks or a mold and refrigerate for 4–24 hours


    7. Serve in the crocks or unmold and serve on a small plate


    8. Mix thoroughly and store in crocks or jars


    9. His “liquor still” was behind the rear of his barn so that he kept the flame outside the structure, but by means of copper pipe he collected the liquor in earthenware crocks inside the barn, safe from pilfers and raccoons


    10. The cold sunlight of this spring evening peered invidiously upon the crocks and kettles, upon the bunches of dried herbs shivering in the breeze, upon the brass handles of the dresser, upon the wicker-cradle they had all been rocked in, and upon the well-rubbed clock-case, all of which gave out the reproachful gleam of indoor articles abandoned to the vicissitudes of a roofless exposure for which they were never made

    11. Some Men were equipp’d with Boarding Pikes to cut thro’ the Enemy’s Rigging (as well as their Nets and Bulwarks), others hurl’d Stinkpotts at the Prey—homemade Crocks of Sulphur with a horrible Smell—or homemade Grenades of Pistol Shot and old Iron


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    Synonyms for "crock"

    crock earthenware jar carbon black lampblack smut soot

    "crock" definitions

    a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink


    nonsense; foolish talk


    an earthen jar (made of baked clay)


    release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric


    soil with or as with crock