: a cruel or ugly old woman
… chocolate-colored rock formations that look like giant toadstools, fat old crones, and creatures from a bad dream.—
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Examples of crone in a Sentence
The old crone lived alone.
a run-down house that was inhabited by a cantankerous crone who kept to herself
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As the moon passes through its phases, Ixchel passes through the phases of a woman’s life, from maiden to mother to crone.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2024
From its use of camera angles and extreme close-ups to frame Sue's hypersexual appeal to the heinous prosthetics that transform Moore into a monstrous crone, writer-director Coralie Fargeat wants to hammer home the ugliness, objectification, and self-loathing perpetuated by female beauty standards.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2024
The Witches concerns a conspiracy of demonic crones bent on eradicating kids altogether.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 29 Feb. 2024
Campbell begins like a fairy tale, in a house the crone Baba Yaga could have comfortably resided in.
—Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
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Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2024
From its use of camera angles and extreme close-ups to frame Sue's hypersexual appeal to the heinous prosthetics that transform Moore into a monstrous crone, writer-director Coralie Fargeat wants to hammer home the ugliness, objectification, and self-loathing perpetuated by female beauty standards.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2024
The Witches concerns a conspiracy of demonic crones bent on eradicating kids altogether.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 29 Feb. 2024
Campbell begins like a fairy tale, in a house the crone Baba Yaga could have comfortably resided in.
—Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
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“Crone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crone. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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