How to Use crow in a Sentence

crow

1 of 2 verb
  • The cock crowed as the sun began to rise.
  • The boy crowed with delight.
  • The rest of us were sick of hearing her crow about her success.
  • So if Duke had won, the Duke fans would have crowed about it.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
  • By the end of the semester, there was much to reflect on and for top brass to crow about.
    David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 26 June 2020
  • Hyland was not one to crow in the media about his big sales, though.
    Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2022
  • For all the Daniels haters out there, of course, the announcement was reason to crow.
    Dallas News, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Netflix, for its part, is happy to crow about its success in the genre.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2023
  • On my first walk through the village of Kontopouli, the roosters are crowing.
    Helene Stapinski, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Roosters crowed, though there were only him and a few others to hear.
    Yassine Oulhiq Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Recordings showed that the roosters did not crow at random.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2013
  • Now, decades later, Kentuckians young and old still bring their roosters to the fair to see who can crow the most in a 15-minute stretch.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 24 Aug. 2022
  • None of the three have much to crow about regarding stock performance.
    Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Roosters can be heard crowing faraway, a sound intermixed with the whirring of a blow torch.
    Nina Roberts, Robb Report, 23 Mar. 2023
  • In video taken by scouts visiting the area, a rooster crowed in the background and a dog watched from behind a rusty foul-line fence.
    Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Negan crows from a mezzanine before slitting a hostage’s throat and spraying blood down to the ground floor.
    Jessica Liese, Variety, 15 June 2023
  • Biden has been crowing about his action to cap insulin prices for Medicare members at $35 a month.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • We’re used to a single event ending and all of the network pundits rushing on the air to crow with their deep thoughts and analysis, or at least a whole lot of words.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 16 Oct. 2020
  • At one point the waiting list for Bozo tickets reached 10 years, and parents who came through could hardly be blamed for crowing a bit.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The killers themselves in any case did not shy away from crowing about their crimes in official documents.
    TIME, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Opening weekend numbers are more than something to crow about (or downplay) in the media.
    Ashley Lee Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2021
  • The Bulldogs' disappointment is great news for the SEC, which can crow over placing two teams in the top four for the second time in the format's history.
    Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2021
  • The sluggish start to the state's vaccination campaign was nothing to crow about, either.
    Star Tribune, 4 Apr. 2021
  • On Twitter, Doute crowed about the season-high ratings of her appearance on Cohen’s talk show.
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 28 June 2023
  • The Chinese will likely take pride in their own system, where such a mutiny is hard to imagine, but will nonetheless be careful not to crow about it.
    Joseph Torigian, Fortune, 3 July 2023
  • As roosters crowed and the black sky turned pre-dawn blue, a line of cars stretched as far as the eye could see, waiting to head up the oceanfront road that winds along the western edge of Maui and into Lahaina.
    Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The recitation of Islam’s dawn prayers droned softly from a nearby mosque, and somewhere nearby, a rooster began to crow.
    Vivian Nereim Andrea Dicenzo, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • For decades, other craft brewers have crowed about their small-batch independence, but later sold out to Big Beer.
    Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Voting isn’t merely a zero-sum game that ends with the winners crowing over their victory and the losers slinking away in defeat.
    Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2024
  • But late last year, Lindell crowed that a federal judge had vindicated him at last.
    Amy Gardner, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024
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crow

2 of 2 noun
  • Four pairs of black shoes gathered on the floor like a flock of crows.
    Photographs Kirsten Luce, New York Times, 8 May 2023
  • Her unit is the closest to the mine, about a quarter mile away as the crow flies.
    Wudan Yan, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2023
  • But as the crow flies, the Great Salt Lake is only about 90 miles from where Hunolt stands.
    Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Dec. 2022
  • It’s sometimes known as the crow, crust, sap, sugar or worm moon.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Now, many crows in the same neck of the woods show hostile behavior to humans.
    Zayna Syed, Popular Science, 15 June 2023
  • The move, as the crow flies, was about two miles — just across the Red River into Minnesota.
    Tom Peterson, Chicago Tribune, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The man is resurrected by a crow and exacts vengeance on those who took his life and the life of his love.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Or a crow, a dog, a chimpanzee, an octopus, or any of the other smart ones.
    Adam Morganstern, Robb Report, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Monaco, as the crow flies, is about five miles to the east; the border with Italy is roughly another 15 miles.
    Nick Scott, Robb Report, 15 Nov. 2022
  • As the mouse walks is the opposite of as the crow flies: Some trails petered out, the powder exhausted.
    Brandon Keim Tristan Spinski, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2022
  • In some cases, police rip down doors with power saws and crow bars.
    Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 18 July 2021
  • Today, the houses's fifteen-feet-high oak doors, shaded by Callery pear trees on the north side of the street, bear gouges from that crow bar.
    Ben Widdicombe, Town & Country, 27 May 2020
  • After nightly use for three weeks, my crow’s feet aren’t as pronounced.
    Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Atop the wall are three down-home rocking chairs, three orange parasols and a wooden chicken in full crow.
    Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 5 Sep. 2020
  • Other names for this month's full moon include the crow, crust, and sugar moon, according to NASA.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Her cabin is only 20 miles from town as the crow flies, but the drive takes more than an hour, because the road has to loop around several mines.
    NBC News, 22 Nov. 2021
  • The crows live in complex social groups and may pass toolmaking techniques on to their offspring.
    Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The outlet added that crows and other species, like condors, are also attracted to shiny items.
    Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
  • For a targeted undereye treatment, try the Retinol Eye Stick to soften the appearance of fine lines and crow's feet over time.
    Sarah Han, Allure, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Sad to report, a wrecking ball called the Ferrari F40 has just put big crow's feet on our stony editorial face.
    Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 2 July 2020
  • This collection of modules stores energy that comes mostly from the solar power plant, which sits about a half-mile away as the crow flies.
    Hannah Morse, Orlando Sentinel, 30 May 2022
  • About the size of a crow, peregrine falcons possess long, pointed wings and tapered tails that boost their aerodynamics and speed.
    Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The researchers questioned whether this is to keep the tool from falling, or if storing the tool in this way allows the crow to pick it back up with the hook in the proper position for more foraging.
    Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The crow's correlation with the spirit realm also plays a role in its relationship with death.
    Sydney Borchers, Fox News, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Though a liquid, the creamy formula contains blurring powders that minimize crows’ feet and dark circles, and diffuse light to lend a bright look to the skin.
    Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The asymmetric shape and generous size tackle a myriad of issues and can extend to reach crow’s feet, too.
    Jessica Teich, Good Housekeeping, 29 June 2022
  • However, the university couldn’t play any ol’ bird sounds to scare away the crows: Beloved peregrine falcons roost on top of the Cathedral of Learning, and choosing the wrong predator could scare away the crows and the falcons.
    Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Ernst, standing outside Viejas, was trying to locate the bookstore, which is located 3/4 mile across campus as the crow flies.
    Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2023
  • This secondary layer of processing of the visual stimulus occurs in the time between when the stimulus appears on the screen and when the crow pecks its answer.
    Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Sep. 2020
  • It’s also formulated to minimize the appearance of fine lines and crow’s feet for younger-looking eyes.
    Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022

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