crotchet

How To Use crotchet In A Sentence

• Nor does he discuss another dialectic, between the Scherzo's anapestic and amphibrach crotchet groups, sublated after the Trio in that startling alla breve succession of equal minims; nor the hunting topos of the Trio.
• She is good reading always, however much we may sometimes pish and pshaw at the untimely poppings-in of the platitudes and crotchets (for he was that most abominable of things, a platitudinous crotcheteer) of Richard her father. The English Novel
• Now, I'm supposed to be pithy in this column, full of cute and snide comments about my Midwestern family, how they don't get it, how they're getting old and crotchety.
• I was feeling miserable and crotchety and on the point of collapse.
• In his early 40s, he was prematurely crotchety.
• Most recently, Boyle was known as the crotchety father on the television comedy series Everybody loves Raymond. Archive 2006-12-01
• The butler suavely tries to inform her; the housekeeper removed the white crotcheted scarfs and things from the gilded chairs, and I am sure Mrs. Denning had a heartache about their loss; but she saw that they had also vanished from The Man Between, an International Romance
• But the actor, best known as crotchety one-legged pensioner Winston from Still Game, is delighted to have come through the eventful season with what he believes is a fantastic second series of his hit sitcom. The Daily Record - Home
• My current plan is, once Ellen has her baby, I'll close off the jumper somehow, stuff it, and make it into a little crotcheted Cthuluish toy. Ana-ng Diary Entry
• I told KC my plan of her teaching me to crotchet baby booties. Ana-ng Diary Entry