How to Use crony in a Sentence

crony

noun

• The mayor rewarded his cronies with high-paying jobs after he was elected.
• But for Trump and his cronies, there is no greater good.
  — Drew Magary, GQ, 3 Mar. 2018
• Mrs May can and should do more to go after the money of Mr Putin’s cronies.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• He is surrounded by a bunch of crooks and cronies, some of whom helped him cheat his way to the White House.
  — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 27 Sep. 2017
• But the fire demon quickly dried off, reignited and, with the help of a few cronies, took me out.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• This is not the first time Kim Jong-un and his cronies have been accused of bitcoin theft.
  — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2017
• And there are times when the Democrats side with the hard right against a crony-capitalism bill.
  — Sven Berg, idahostatesman, 2 Nov. 2017
• That's what keeps him in power, that's what keeps his cronies in power.
  — CBS News, 5 Feb. 2020
• Caesar and his cronies wear dark business suits, white shirts, glossy shoes.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 June 2017
• His selfless changes made Wolters the crony of Colorado’s young pitching staff.
  — Nick Groke, The Denver Post, 9 June 2017
• The three-bedroom palace in the sky sold alright, but for slightly more than half what the Vladimir Putin crony once wanted.
  — Jose Lambiet, miamiherald, 30 May 2018
• The first is thought, by some, to mark the birth of modernism; the second, played live by Brent Griffin Jr. and cronies, ushered in a sub-genre now called free jazz.
  — Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2024
• Ryan and his cronies went away and came back with a bill that was somehow worse and more unpopular than the first version of the bill.
  — Jack Moore, GQ, 28 June 2017
• Can’t wait until this mayor and his cronies are voted out.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
• One of my mother’s drinking cronies, a needling terror of a woman, stumbled over to us.
  — Douglas Stuart, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
• President Clinton put it on sale for the benefit of donors and cronies.
  — The Editors, National Review, 28 Aug. 2017
• His policies want to take us back to that white-supremacist past while his rich cronies make hand over fist.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2024
• Elaine Wynn had described Hagenbuch as a crony of her ex-husband.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
• Orbán extracts a great deal from the bloc—including money (much of which is siphoned off to his cronies).
  — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2020
• Neither Wang Yang nor Zheng is seen as a Xi crony, but both would have had to work hard to prove their loyalty to the president to have risen this far.
  — Simon Denyer, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2017
• Do Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his cronies need a pardon?
  — Jim Wyss, miamiherald, 15 June 2017
• Kim must supply goodies to his cronies, or else they will be tempted to eliminate him.
  — Scott Feldmann, Orange County Register, 14 Apr. 2017
• If true, that would have ensured that friendly cronies made the final stop on the Venezuelan-debt gravy train before payments ceased.
  — The Economist, 3 Nov. 2017
• But some of the other textbooks could have been tossed together by Little Sloppy and his cronies.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• The group’s main worry: money to construct the sport facilities would flow to cronies of the ruling party.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2018
• That has won him praise here and beyond Brazil and raised hopes about an end to crony capitalism and impunity.
  — Luciana Magalhães and Samantha Pearson, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017
• Indeed, former Illinois Gov. George Ryan wound up in prison for steering state business to cronies for bribes.
  — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• But in recent years, she was accused of being partial to cronies and stamping out dissent.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2024
• In a night game against the Angels in the 1980s when Dempsey threw out four runners to the delight of us high school friends, an old man walked from the shadows of the postgame parking lot with a couple of his cronies.
  — Gregory Orfalea, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019
• Trump and his cronies, emboldened by his behavior, spew noxious insults like a ’93 Civic belches exhaust.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024