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crone - use in sentences
Converse of object
- age: As I entered the site, an aged, nearly toothless crone in a worn blue boiler suit appeared, carrying a tea-pot.
- wrinkle: THE EMIGRANT RETURNS TO ALBANIA Returning at last from far emigration I saw my country: a wrinkled old crone.
- wheeze: A fine young man when we start, I was a wheezing old crone when we eventually get to the top.
- become: If a mermaid was to marry a fin man she would slowly lose her beauty, until she became an ugly crone.
- see: Clair For the life of me, I cannot see the old crone in that picture, and it's really annoying me!
Adjective modifier
- old: Virgo The figure here is of an old crone four miles long, one of the aspects of the Goddess.
- wise: She was one goddess but manifested as the maiden, the mother and the old wise crone.
- wizened: However, contrary to widely held belief she is not a wizened crone.
- ancient: While sunbathing in my shreddies I was suddenly confronted by the ancient crone who dwelt in a nearby thatched hut and herded llamas.
- toothless: Edmund: Sir, the type of women currently favored in France are toothless crones who just cackle insanely.
- ugly: If a mermaid was to marry a fin man she would slowly lose her beauty, until she became an ugly crone.
Modifies a noun
- aspect: She appears in the Irish stories and can be identified as the crone aspect of the triple goddess.
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