Use of crotchety in Sentences. 26 Examples

The examples include crotchety at the start of sentence, crotchety at the end of sentence and crotchety in the middle of sentence

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crotchety at the end of sentence


  1. He was tired and crotchety.
  2. By the time the meal began, the youngest children were getting tired and crotchety.

crotchety in the middle of sentence


  1. He is a crotchety old man.
  2. He was warm, gregarious, crotchety, and humorous.
  3. He was warm, gregarious, crotchety, and humorous.
  4. The old woman had got very crotchety since being warmed up.
  5. The old woman had got very crotchety since being warmed up.
  6. His crotchety, even cruel behavior must be mischaracterized too.
  7. His crotchety, even cruel behavior must be mischaracterized too.
  8. A long, crotchety letter, as we might say in Chile: gloomy and irritable.
  9. A long, crotchety letter, as we might say in Chile: gloomy and irritable.
  10. You grow old if you are irritable, crotchety, petulant, and cantankerous.
  11. A lot of older people are crotchety because they've been complaining all their lives.
  12. When we were in Germany, we rented a room from a crotchety old woman named Brunhilde.
  13. A lot of older people are crotchety because they've been complaining all their lives.
  14. Meanwhile, in personal life he became a reasonably prosperous but crotchety landowner.
  15. Meanwhile, in personal life he became a reasonably prosperous but crotchety landowner.
  16. It's hardly surprising that this bold, or perhaps crotchety, proposal was instantly controversial.
  17. Anyone can experience it and benefit from it, even the most crotchety uncle at the Thanksgiving dinner table.
  18. Anyone can experience it and benefit from it, even the most crotchety uncle at the Thanksgiving dinner table.
  19. On deadline day, the paper's crotchety general manager would suddenly appear over her shoulder, inspecting her work for errors.
  20. The real trouble was that Gerhardt had grown intensely morose and crotchety, and it was becoming impossible for young people to live with him.
  21. Though still, the letters on the page live and breathe as the writer does, crotchety and shaky with old age, hectic with youth, comfortably embracing as a mother.
  22. Everyone would be assigned a familial role: from Old Man Jerry Buss, the wise and sometimes crotchety grandfather, to consigliere Phil Jackson, the trusted family counselor.
  23. Everyone would be assigned a familial role: from Old Man Jerry Buss, the wise and sometimes crotchety grandfather, to consigliere Phil Jackson, the trusted family counselor.
  24. A lot of older people are crotchety because they've been complaining all their lives. (Down in Florida, my mother describes condo-association bickering as 'nitpicking in paradise.

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