How to Use crow in a Sentence

crow

1 of 2 noun
  • Art is friends with a crow named Brooksy.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 May 2026
  • My crow's feet are nearly gone.
    Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 23 June 2026
  • In the morning, the crows will see the birds.
    Joan Morris, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Can’t wait till some critics have to eat crow.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Other birds won’t be bothered, but the crows will stay away for a long time.
    Joan Morris, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • My wife asked me to write to you over a crow infestation.
    Joan Morris, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The fox indicates the hours, the crow drops the minutes.
    Stephen Watson, Robb Report, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Other birds, such as crows and jays, also may damage lawns.
    Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 6 May 2026
  • Crow The call of the American crow can be heard almost anywhere.
    Christopher Gangemi, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
  • However, there is a reliable method for keeping crows out of your yard and letting the others live in peace.
    Joan Morris, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Overhead, vultures, crows and gulls swarmed, feeding on carcasses and insects and other waste.
    CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2026
  • But he's come a long way, even managing a difficult crow pose while working on hip flexibility.
    Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The smallest microraptors were similar in size to modern crows.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 4 June 2026
  • As its name suggests, the product is formulated with skin care superstar retinol to smooth fine lines and crow’s feet and brighten dark circles.
    Kyra Surgent, InStyle, 7 July 2026
  • This moderate-strength retinol, which has more than 8,000 five-star ratings, tackles laugh lines, wrinkles, and crow's feet.
    Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Always listen closely for far off gobbles (especially after crows, owls, or coyotes sound off).
    Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Today, Primm is nearly a ghost town, where the soundtrack is primarily cawing crows and trucks speeding by on the highway.
    Christopher Intagliata, NPR, 3 July 2026
  • Art witnesses a flock of crows suddenly dash themselves into the ground in the surrounding desert for no apparent reason.
    ArsTechnica, 26 May 2026
  • Due north of the monument (as the crow flies) there’s Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge.
    Jamie Siebrase, Denver Post, 26 June 2026
  • With continued use, the eye gel can help reduce crow’s feet and other fine lines around the eye area, smooth out under-eye bags, and even brighten up the area for a more awake-looking glow.
    Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 2 June 2026
  • Sparrows, starlings, bluebirds, swallows, ravens, pigeons, and crows can become nuisance birds, causing damage and health risks.
    Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 13 June 2026
  • Roughly a mile away as the crow flies is the site of what once was known as Mills College, which was a private, four-year liberal-arts college for women.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 19 May 2026
  • As the crow flies, the Mammoth Mine property is only about 12 miles from Idaho City.
    Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 25 June 2026
  • Hyaluronic acid and collagen help visibly hydrate and plump skin, smoothing the appearance of lines, crow’s feet and crepey texture for a flawless makeup look.
    Tory Johnson, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • For 30 minutes, a patron can use a sledgehammer or crow bar to smash TVs, keyboards, printers, beer bottles, plates and old phones.
    Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Some birds, most notably crows, like to give their food a good dunking before eating, so there’s a possibility worms in the birdbath were left by these fastidious birds.
    Joan Morris, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Every once in a while a crow calls, but there’s not much structure to it, with the sounds listlessly bouncing off the walls imposed by the five-minute runtimes instead of cohering into a rhythm.
    Andrew Ryce, Pitchfork, 6 July 2026
  • The Boroughs hasn’t yet been renewed, but Art’s knowledge about the crows and the peach tree remain useful for a potential season two, Peters says.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 May 2026
  • This product was clinically tested and proven to result in improved skin firmness, hyperpigmentation and crow’s feet, deep lines and wrinkles.
    Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Extensive clinical and user trials have found that the topical helps skin appear smoother, cuts back on fine lines and wrinkles like crow’s feet, alleviates redness, and doesn’t clog pores all the while.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 14 July 2026

crow

2 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 there's a lot of success to crow about in the tariff space.
    CBS News, 21 Dec. 2025
  • So if Duke had won, the Duke fans would have crowed about it.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Hyland was not one to crow in the media about his big sales, though.
    Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2022
  • So, there's a lot of success to crow about in the tariff space.
    CBS News, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Roosters crowed, though there were only him and a few others to hear.
    Yassine Oulhiq Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Netflix, for its part, is happy to crow about its success in the genre.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Even crows craft tools, bending twigs to similar ends.
    Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Trump crowed about the ruling in a post on Truth Social.
    Dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2025
  • None of the three have much to crow about regarding stock performance.
    Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • For all the Daniels haters out there, of course, the announcement was reason to crow.
    Dallas News, 25 Aug. 2022
  • But, this time, something spooked him—a distant rooster crowing.
    Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
  • In the corner of the yard, the rooster is crowing away in boisterous voice.
    Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Roberts crowed from the stage at midfield at Dodger Stadium last week.
    Andy McCullough, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Roosters can be heard crowing faraway, a sound intermixed with the whirring of a blow torch.
    Nina Roberts, Robb Report, 23 Mar. 2023
  • On my first walk through the village of Kontopouli, the roosters are crowing.
    Helene Stapinski, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The killers themselves in any case did not shy away from crowing about their crimes in official documents.
    TIME, 26 Jan. 2024
  • There were a few more taste tests and recipe readings before crowing the blue ribbon champion.
    Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 14 Aug. 2025
  • These guys had all crowed on social media that Donaldson’s contests are far too easy.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 6 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sturridge crows and growls his lines, rolling his torso and crouching to crawl on his knuckles like a young silverback.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2025
  • For someone who so often crows about free speech on X/Twitter, that seems pretty odd.
    Brenda Looper, arkansasonline.com, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Desert harvester ants scurried over gravel while a rooster crowed among hens pock-pocking on someone's front porch.
    Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2024
  • What else schools can do Critics crow that there is, in fact, more mid-majors can do by bumping up their schedules.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The family waved to the crowed from the balcony as the sun came out for the traditional flypast.
    Christina Perrier, InStyle, 13 June 2026
  • 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

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