How to Use crone in a Sentence
crone
noun
- The old crone lived alone.
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Danaë’s prison guard, an old crone, tries to catch the god’s golden sperm in her apron.
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Washington Post,
19 Aug. 2021
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After midnight on a listless Friday on Lex, the old crone gave the nod.
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Gail Sheehy,
Daily Intelligencer,
9 Sep. 2017
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There’s a famous statue by Rodin, which shows the soul of a young woman striving to break free of the flesh of an old crone.
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Richard A. Lovett,
Outside Online,
1 Sep. 2021
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This is why middle-aged or old women are witches and crones in fairy tales.
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Jill Gleeson,
Woman's Day,
9 June 2017
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Pollard shines in a role that demands her to be both hag and crone, as well as loving mother.
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Denise Coffey,
Courant Community,
2 Mar. 2018
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In the comics, Agatha Harkness is often depicted as a classic old crone type of witch.
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New York Times,
7 Mar. 2021
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Out of nowhere, an ancient crone appears and stuffs sacred worms into his wounds.
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Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2017
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Amdam likens them to the classic optical illusion (shown on the right) which depicts both a young debutante and an old crone.
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Ed Yong,
Discover Magazine,
16 Sep. 2012
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But things got a bit mystical with Margaret (guest star Cherry Jones), the crone in the stone house the Mayor visits to get permission to open a bridge to let the marathon runners pass.
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Kristi Turnquist,
OregonLive.com,
22 Mar. 2018
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One such shape, made with a twisted or braided dough, was meant to ward off the wrath of a Teutonic witch-demon, a crone with matted, twisted hair called Berchta or Holle.
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Benjamin,
Longreads,
20 May 2022
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The rest of the plot is driven by a shadowy cabal of feminist vigilantes who, among other things, target and assassinate rapists while dressed as crones.
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Sonia Saraiya,
HWD,
5 June 2018
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These women tapped into a long line of mythic female figures—the nymph, the witch, the fairy, the crone—who have used metamorphosis in order to outwit, and outpace, their more solid, and literal, male kin.
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Anwen Crawford,
The New Yorker,
22 May 2017
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Sometimes, they are depicted as mountain-dwelling crones shunned by society.
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Alex Orlando,
Discover Magazine,
24 July 2023
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Guests will also hear the stories of Erie Mary, an old crone who supposedly has haunted the shores of Lake Erie for centuries, causing shipwrecks, sinkings and unexplained weather.
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cleveland.com,
12 Oct. 2017
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Gabi becomes a cackling crone bent on humiliating James.
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Peter Debruge,
Variety,
22 Jan. 2023
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Of primary importance for many Neopagans is the triple goddess, a figure who encompasses the three aspects of maiden, mother and crone.
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Alyssa Beall,
USA TODAY,
13 May 2023
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Gone is the benevolent ruler, replaced by an insatiable madman, who brokered a deal for power with three classical crones, who emerge hissing from the water in a mass of roiling tentacles (don't ask).
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John Serba | [email protected],
NOLA.com,
12 May 2017
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The couple has since added to this touching scene, upping the ante by including a glowing gargoyle, a vintage hearse with a beheading theme, a crone cradling a precociously horrifying popeyed infant.
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Kevin Conley,
Town & Country,
31 Oct. 2014
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Only a few hunched old crones remember that now-defunct modeling agency—owned by our wise and noble president, Donald Trump—which closed this week, after reports of mass exodus.
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Richard Lawson,
Vanities,
13 Apr. 2017
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The balance of power is deeply unstable, as the narrator tilts from crowing lord to humiliated crone and back again, while L’s cruelty and uncompromising commitment to himself is undermined by the effect of time on his body.
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Jo Livingstone,
The New Republic,
8 June 2021
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Films also explore witches of middle age, mining that taboo territory when women transform from mother to crone, reaching a period of their lives when society at large rejects them for no longer being fertile or desirable.
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Time,
13 Oct. 2022
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