crotchet
Example Sentences
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Maybe you already sew, crotchet, build furniture, compose music or write short stories.
From Seattle Times
The relation a lived life bears to the black marks on the page is more akin to the way musicians turn minims and crotchets into the sublime craziness, of, say, Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge.
From The Guardian
What binds the stories are the tight relationships of Varg and his colleagues and their hilariously human crotchets.
From New York Times
A yellow crotchet collar is the one she wears when she announces a majority opinion for the Supreme Court, she told Katie Couric.
From Fox News
He named his invention Velcro, a combination of “velour” and “crotchet,” the French words for velvet and hook.
From Seattle Times
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