Word info

crannies

Meaning

of Cranny

Source: Webster's dictionary

Examples

Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks. Dr. Seuss

The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies. Stephen King

Heat of passion makes our souls to chap, and the devil creeps in at the crannies. Thomas Fuller

There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies. James Wolcott

Marxist socialism also had dark nooks and crannies where Jews were regarded as money-mad capitalists or as an ‘obsolete' people who refused to join the onward march of secular progress towards a moneyless society. Anarchists also suffered from this contagion,... Michael Burleigh

Faced with a time shortage, we squeeze tasks into the nooks and crannies of our calendar, leaving less and less time to switch between them. As a result, we become less and less productive exactly when we need to be most productive. Sendhil Mullainathan

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