How to Use crabby in a Sentence

crabby

adjective

• She gets crabby if she doesn't get enough sleep.
• A lot of people are crabby about the Olympics — even hostile to the Olympics.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 July 2021
• Watch the video to see the crabby toddler give her dad an adorable cold shoulder.
  — Sarah Scanlan, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2022
• The crabby scallop is kind of this invention of my own.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2022
• The edge of a coin provides an ample landscape for its crabby walk.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 26 May 2022
• This is the beginning of crab season, but don’t be crabby.
  — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 24 May 2017
• And the crabby snacks (finger food served by Quick’s own mother) offered on game day.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 1 Feb. 2018
• Most questions were met with crabby three- and four-word non-answers.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 20 Aug. 2017
• And wouldn’t that just show her crabby old grandmother!
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• In one cartoon, a crabby guy is shown holding beaker of liquid.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 7 Dec. 2019
• Sure, there’s a plot: a mayoral race to rig, a friendship to repair, a crabby romance to kickstart.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2021
• Keep your crabby comments and compulsive shopping on the down-low — at least for those 10 days.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 20 Oct. 2023
• What’s more, each has evolved crabby body plans multiple times.
  — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2022
• But crabby old baseball is having a nice, self-aware moment.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2018
• The musical, while meant to appeal to crabby commuters of all stripes, is not meant to vilify the T or its workers.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2021
• There was plenty to like and really nothing to irritate a crabby old guy and his friends.
  — Mark Savage, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2017
• Gathering around a table to share a meal with friends can turn a crabby mood into a gift to appreciate.
  — Jennifer Angel, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Dec. 2015
• Oh no! Don't get crabby, but your summertime feasts may look a little different this year.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2021
• These classic little baits can work any time, but when it’s cold and smallmouths get really crabby, a hair jig can catch them when nothing else will.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 22 Apr. 2020
• This man was feeling crabby after dropping the engagement ring in the ocean mid-proposal.
  — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 30 Nov. 2022
• As the bread course is neatly at the mid-point of the menu, this is a great place to have the most intense flavor strike, which comes from the salty, savory, crabby, and nutty hoisin that perfectly cuts into the soft steamy core of the crab bun.
  — Chelsea Davis, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• The crabby old men at the controls were falling apart, physically and mentally.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2022
• Of course, there’s a classically Jets-y angle to this surprise start: some doomsdayish fans are crabby that the Jets are sabotaging their chances for the top draft pick.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2017
• While plastic pollution has longed plagued marine life, there's one species that isn't feeling so crabby upon seeing it.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2021
• There’s little new about the setup of the crabby older person forced together with a resistant youngster only to surmount their mutual disdain and form a life-changing bond.
  — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
• A crabby patient will cheer up, making the patient more cooperative with hospital staff.
  — Lynn Thompson, The Seattle Times, 9 June 2017
• And at this late date, there is absolutely no point in trying to get the nation’s congenitally crabby reference librarians to crack a smile.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
• In Semple’s depiction, Bernadette is more than just crabby and eloquently viper-tongued; she’s possessed by a sociopolitical bitterness, as well.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
• Responses on Twitter were similarly negative, with many users slamming Shaggy's lack of claws as the fan-favorite crabby crustacean.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 6 Nov. 2019
• The Cleveland Browns’ postseason drought grew from a crabby and cranky toddler into an exasperating adolescent.
  — Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024