How to Use crone in a Sentence

crone

noun

• The old crone lived alone.
• Danaë’s prison guard, an old crone, tries to catch the god’s golden sperm in her apron.
  — Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
• This is why middle-aged or old women are witches and crones in fairy tales.
  — Jill Gleeson, Woman's Day, 9 June 2017
• The crone ties a red string around Emma’s wrist and tells her to make three wishes.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Sep. 2023
• Every person who is an adult but not yet elderly needs a crone in their lives.
  — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
• Out of nowhere, an ancient crone appears and stuffs sacred worms into his wounds.
  — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
• Pollard shines in a role that demands her to be both hag and crone, as well as loving mother.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 2 Mar. 2018
• There on the bare table sat Sister Wang, naked, like a crone from a tale.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
• After midnight on a listless Friday on Lex, the old crone gave the nod.
  — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
• In the next, he is pursued by a demon crone known in local legend as the Sea Hag.
  — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 18 June 2026
• Two crones in Budapest are lording over a cauldron of goulash right now discussing the game.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2025
• At a central spot, the crones halted, pulled out their cauldron and began the dark ritual.
  — Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
• There’s a famous statue by Rodin, which shows the soul of a young woman striving to break free of the flesh of an old crone.
  — Richard A. Lovett, Outside Online, 1 Sep. 2021
• In the comics, Agatha Harkness is often depicted as a classic old crone type of witch.
  — New York Times, 7 Mar. 2021
• Sometimes, they are depicted as mountain-dwelling crones shunned by society.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2023
• It’s even carved with mother/maiden/crone moon phases, perfect for keeping crystals nearby.
  — Cristian Esteban, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2023
• None of these books exactly celebrate the status of the crone; all offer midlife beauty-maintenance tips.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
• Campbell begins like a fairy tale, in a house the crone Baba Yaga could have comfortably resided in.
  — Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
• As the moon passes through its phases, Ixchel passes through the phases of a woman’s life, from maiden to mother to crone.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2024
• Somewhere in Budapest right now, two crones hovered over a cauldron of goulash are looking ahead to Sunday.
  — Greg Cote february 3, Miami Herald, 3 Feb. 2026
• Lisa is dancing the Godmother, a kind of a midwife crone who puts other people before herself, always beside them.
  — Guillermo Perez, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2025
• The rest of the plot is driven by a shadowy cabal of feminist vigilantes who, among other things, target and assassinate rapists while dressed as crones.
  — Sonia Saraiya, HWD, 5 June 2018
• One such shape, made with a twisted or braided dough, was meant to ward off the wrath of a Teutonic witch-demon, a crone with matted, twisted hair called Berchta or Holle.
  — Benjamin, Longreads, 20 May 2022
• Popular culture’s usual parade of toothless codgers and crones increasingly seemed obsolete.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
• Of primary importance for many Neopagans is the triple goddess, a figure who encompasses the three aspects of maiden, mother and crone.
  — Alyssa Beall, USA TODAY, 13 May 2023
• Her grandmother Zahra, an old crone of a woman who cruelly spits out words to demean her daughter and granddaughter with little regard for their feelings, had always forbid them.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 17 Nov. 2023
• Gone is the benevolent ruler, replaced by an insatiable madman, who brokered a deal for power with three classical crones, who emerge hissing from the water in a mass of roiling tentacles (don't ask).
  — John Serba | [email protected], NOLA.com, 12 May 2017
• These women tapped into a long line of mythic female figures—the nymph, the witch, the fairy, the crone—who have used metamorphosis in order to outwit, and outpace, their more solid, and literal, male kin.
  — Anwen Crawford, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
• The couple has since added to this touching scene, upping the ante by including a glowing gargoyle, a vintage hearse with a beheading theme, a crone cradling a precociously horrifying popeyed infant.
  — Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 31 Oct. 2014
• But things got a bit mystical with Margaret (guest star Cherry Jones), the crone in the stone house the Mayor visits to get permission to open a bridge to let the marathon runners pass.
  — Kristi Turnquist, OregonLive.com, 22 Mar. 2018