How to Use crony in a Sentence

crony

noun
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  • The mayor rewarded his cronies with high-paying jobs after he was elected.
  • But for Trump and his cronies, there is no greater good.
    — Drew Magary, GQ, 3 Mar. 2018
  • Mrs May can and should do more to go after the money of Mr Putin’s cronies.
    — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
  • But the fire demon quickly dried off, reignited and, with the help of a few cronies, took me out.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • This is not the first time Kim Jong-un and his cronies have been accused of bitcoin theft.
    — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2017
  • That's what keeps him in power, that's what keeps his cronies in power.
    — CBS News, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The three-bedroom palace in the sky sold alright, but for slightly more than half what the Vladimir Putin crony once wanted.
    — Jose Lambiet, miamiherald, 30 May 2018
  • One of my mother’s drinking cronies, a needling terror of a woman, stumbled over to us.
    — Douglas Stuart, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Elaine Wynn had described Hagenbuch as a crony of her ex-husband.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
  • Orbán extracts a great deal from the bloc—including money (much of which is siphoned off to his cronies).
    — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2020
  • But some of the other textbooks could have been tossed together by Little Sloppy and his cronies.
    — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • The group’s main worry: money to construct the sport facilities would flow to cronies of the ruling party.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2018
  • In a night game against the Angels in the 1980s when Dempsey threw out four runners to the delight of us high school friends, an old man walked from the shadows of the postgame parking lot with a couple of his cronies.
    — Gregory Orfalea, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019
  • What’s been built to date can stand as a monument to the arrogance and stupidity of Newsom and his cronies.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Daniels's testimony should lead to scrutiny of Trump and his cronies, not of her career.
    — Hayley MacMillen, Allure, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Which makes the audience another crony, with beer available at the theater bar.
    — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Otherwise, it was turned over to local cronies or to Russian entrepreneurs.
    — David Lewis, Foreign Affairs, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Manfred and his big-market cronies seem to have no concern that more than half of the major league teams enter each season with no chance to reach the World Series.
    — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
  • That means whether or not Obama's cronies get their power back or whether the Trump agenda continues with its success.
    — Fox News, 14 Sep. 2018
  • The expansion of the CPP’s central committee last year by more than 300 cronies smacks of trying to please everyone.
    — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Get our daily newsletter Mr Ramaphosa’s most urgent task is to kick out of his cabinet the cronies and hacks put there by Mr Zuma.
    — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Gennady Timchenko, a wealthy Putin crony, started one called Redoubt.
    — Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 29 June 2023
  • The West does, of course, have an interest in preventing a certain class of Russians from enjoying life in its cities: Putin’s cronies.
    — Aleksei Miniailo, Foreign Affairs, 28 Dec. 2023
  • DeJoy is a Trump crony and a holdover from a corrupt administration.
    — Washington Post, 9 June 2021
  • Yet Nazis are easy targets; Hitler and his cronies need little satirizing.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Because with Putin at the head of a government of crony capitalism, the only way to shape his behavior is to crackdown on his cronies.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Because with Putin at the head of a government of crony capitalism, the only way to shape his behavior is to crackdown on his cronies.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2022
  • One of those 46, Roosevelt’s crony Vincent Astor, grumbled sheepishly at the dinner that the bill might bankrupt him.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2019
  • His ability to serve the needs of his crony network might be severely downgraded.
    — WSJ, 4 June 2021
  • Much of this money finds its way to cronies of the prime minister, often via overpriced procurement contracts.
    — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018

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