How to Use crap in a Sentence

crap

1 of 2 verb
  • Many Vegas coasters have crapped out.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Why does this show try so hard to make everyone crap on Peter all the time?
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Also, the app has been crap for months on Android, for me anyway.
    Michael Cox, The Athletic, 25 Dec. 2024
  • There are diplomatic ways to work with countries but instead, Trump does crap like this.
    Joel Thayer, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
  • The altitude beats defenders to crap by the fourth quarter.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The more Conan would crap all over Larry, the more Larry would laugh.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • And props to Sage for crapping her pants on national television.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Dec. 2025
  • But when the Yankees won the World Series, the jumbotron kept crapping out every time our name was meant to appear.
    Brandon Follick, The New Yorker, 27 June 2024
  • Proprietor Hank Frey found himself in a high-stakes craps game at the city’s Biltmore Hotel.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2026
  • But the Giants weren’t in a position to roll the dice again after crapping out on the Daboll, Judge and McAdoo hires.
    Dan Duggan, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
  • In legislative session after session, gambling bills crap out, with lawmakers taking their cues from anti-gambling expansion forces.
    Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Marshall’s Chicago won Best Picture, and so there seems reason to be excited here after earlier incarnations crapped out.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The basic story is that the ancient Greeks were good at science, the Romans were great engineers, and then everything went to crap for about a thousand years until Galileo showed up and set everybody straight about the scientific method.
    Chad Orzel, Forbes, 12 May 2021
  • Residents of the Altamonte Springs neighborhood of Spring Oaks reported finding human feces on vehicles, mailboxes and in yards before surveillance video pointed the finger at her as the crapping bandit.
    Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026

crap

2 of 2 noun
  • Holy crap this is a great movie.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Holy crap this is a great movie.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • You guys keep putting that crap out there.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 24 Mar. 2026
  • There’s all that crap that goes with it.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Guests were able to play games like poker, roulette and craps.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The thing is, the swimming part, that part’s good, the rest is crap.
    Anne Carson, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
  • And Seth figured out how to smooth all that crap out.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Sage was talking crap about her the entire game.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Dec. 2025
  • In no mood to take a coworker’s crap?
    Usa Today, USA Today, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Is there enough calories in a diet of crap to keep you alive?
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The body parts that are not coated in mud are covered in crap.
    David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Yes, there is still plenty of kitschy crap in the system.
    Faran Krentcil, InStyle, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Some go for the slots, some for craps, some for strippers, and some for the shows.
    Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 18 June 2023
  • A lot of people don’t have that stomach to eat crap for a decade.
    Esha Chhabra, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • How can people come out with this crap in the face of genuine tragedy?
    Cameron K McEwan, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
  • Find someone that has never played craps and ask them to roll the dice.
    Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025
  • And my first thought was, Oh crap, the cat's gonna take a dump or urinate.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Hm, the parking lot looks pretty full Oh crap.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside, 2 Dec. 2025
  • In the meantime, enough with Hamas and this piecemeal crap on hostages.
    David Weigel, semafor.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Holy crap, Arsenal fans are thin skinned.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
  • What is the next wave of … lack of a better word … crap that’s going to happen?
    Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 31 May 2024
  • 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
  • My coworker gives me crap for eating soup not in the winter.
    R29 Team, Refinery29, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The sheer volume of vitriol and crap kept beating mods down too.
    Paresh Dave, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Get your crap together, not in Congress.
    Deputy News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2025
  • But then there was also another side of excitement, like, holy crap.
    Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas Morning News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The new third-floor hall is longer than a football field, filled with shiny new blackjack, craps, baccarat and roulette tables.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • These can be treated like utter crap and still sound great, according to the company.
    Parker Hall, WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Lee’s van craps out, which gives Lee time to call Betty Jo and blame her for this tragic mess.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025

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