How to Use crap in a Sentence

crap

noun
  • The thing is, the swimming part, that part’s good, the rest is crap.
    Anne Carson, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Some go for the slots, some for craps, some for strippers, and some for the shows.
    Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 18 June 2023
  • Our sand is pink and perfect, and the Venice Beach sand is full of so much crap.
    Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 July 2023
  • The body parts that are not coated in mud are covered in crap.
    David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2024
  • How can people come out with this crap in the face of genuine tragedy?
    Cameron K McEwan, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
  • What is the next wave of … lack of a better word … crap that’s going to happen?
    Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 31 May 2024
  • Sci-fi has been warning people about this crap for decades.
    WIRED, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The sheer volume of vitriol and crap kept beating mods down too.
    Paresh Dave, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Melvin, who managed to make some chicken salad out of the crap scooped off the floor of Oakland’s coop, seemed perfect.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Only her father’s advice to her, that life itself is a crap game, has held up over time.
    Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Manson starts the ‘60s as a grubby little inmate whose rap sheet—prison buggery aside—is a bunch of crap.
    Matt Thompson, Spin, 10 Sep. 2023
  • For the best online craps experience, Ignition is the place to be.
    Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Next opportunity — at Raiders (Thursday): F- A tale of two leaky ships passing on the craps table in the night.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Why does that make the reader happy, whereas all the new Disney crap makes everyone sad?
    Joel Stein, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2023
  • These can be treated like utter crap and still sound great, according to the company.
    Parker Hall, WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
  • If the same characters ended up at the same craps table in Vegas and rode a collective winning streak, would that be a triumph against The Man?
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The agreement, known as a compact, gave the tribe control over sports betting in Florida and allowed its casinos to offer roulette and craps.
    Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
  • This is the result of the extreme left and PC crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people.
    Angela Yang, NBC News, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Take your pick of 250 slots; alternatively, try your luck at table games like blackjack, roulette, or craps.
    Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Ars Technica already wrote a good, practical guide to turning off most of the crap that Windows 11 includes.
    Nathan Edwards, The Verge, 21 Apr. 2024
  • Because pregnant mice, generally speaking, can and will kick the absolute crap out of a young male mouse.
    Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The deal also allowed the tribe to contract with the state’s pari-mutuel operators to offer sports betting and gave the Seminoles permission to add craps and roulette at their casinos.
    Dara Kam, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Table game fans have enough options to keep them entertained, and a great range of specialty games like real money craps rounds out their catalog.
    Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Manicures, pedicures, massages and knitting lessons were all available for guests to indulge in — as well as tables for people to play blackjack, craps and poker.
    Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Babinski said there are now a full complement of 48 table games, including blackjack, roulette, craps, baccarat, and some forms of poker.
    Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 27 July 2023
  • Then there are the self-motivators — guys like Draymond Green or Gary Payton, who want their opponents to talk crap, because that ensures their own engagement in a game.
    Greg Hanlon, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Belly up to a blackjack, poker, or craps table and try your luck, or stand back and observe someone else playing — somehow, even just watching casino action is a thrill in Las Vegas.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 21 July 2023
  • The only thing allowed here is wall-to-wall jingoistic patriotism—the kind where there's no room for anything except God, the United States of America, and bombing the crap out of the enemy.
    Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2024
  • On August 23, after raiding a craps game led by Black men, police assaulted a Black woman, then arrested a soldier who tried to intervene.
    Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Blackjack, baccarat, European roulette (especially French), craps and poker all have betting strategies that help lower the randomised risk and give you a fighting chance.
    Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2024

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