crannied

Example Sentences

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We have this wind coming off the East River, and Robert Moses got rid of Walt Whitman's neighborhood of crannied streets, and what was left was a steppe.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2013

Upon great pedestals founded in the deep waters stood two great kings of stone: still with blurred eyes and crannied brows they frowned upon the North.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

If the flower in the crannied wall, if even a single atom of matter, present mysteries which the most profound intellect cannot solve, how is it possible for man to comprehend the universe?

From Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era by Esslemont, J. E. (John Ebenezer)

Her lungs felt thick and slow, her mind dissolved, she felt she could cling like a bat in the long swoon of the crannied, underworld darkness.

From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Though called a castle, the building was little fortified, and had been erected with greater eye to internal convenience than those crannied places of defence to which the name strictly appertains. 

From A Group of Noble Dames by Hardy, Thomas