How to Use crony in a Sentence

crony

noun
  • The mayor rewarded his cronies with high-paying jobs after he was elected.
  • That's what keeps him in power, that's what keeps his cronies in power.
    — CBS News, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Caesar and his cronies wear dark business suits, white shirts, glossy shoes.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 June 2017
  • 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
  • And the job is to separate those working-class voters from the cronies.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
  • And there are times when the Democrats side with the hard right against a crony-capitalism bill.
    — Sven Berg, idahostatesman, 2 Nov. 2017
  • His policies want to take us back to that white-supremacist past while his rich cronies make hand over fist.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2024
  • This is not the first time Kim Jong-un and his cronies have been accused of bitcoin theft.
    — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Kim must supply goodies to his cronies, or else they will be tempted to eliminate him.
    — Scott Feldmann, Orange County Register, 14 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • Mrs May can and should do more to go after the money of Mr Putin’s cronies.
    — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
  • His selfless changes made Wolters the crony of Colorado’s young pitching staff.
    — Nick Groke, The Denver Post, 9 June 2017
  • But in recent years, she was accused of being partial to cronies and stamping out dissent.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2024
  • President Clinton put it on sale for the benefit of donors and cronies.
    — The Editors, National Review, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Ryan and his cronies went away and came back with a bill that was somehow worse and more unpopular than the first version of the bill.
    — Jack Moore, GQ, 28 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • So, the goal is to have someone sitting in these booths with a gold pinky ring whispering to his crony to call someone over to his table.
    — Mars Salazar, Austin American Statesman, 3 Sep. 2025
  • That has won him praise here and beyond Brazil and raised hopes about an end to crony capitalism and impunity.
    — Luciana Magalhães and Samantha Pearson, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Leave ownership undefined, and the moon will become a playground for politicians and their cronies.
    — Antony Davies, Boston Herald, 19 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • This state judge and her cronies allegedly abused that high honor for personal gain by preying on the needy protected by the court.
    — Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2026
  • If true, that would have ensured that friendly cronies made the final stop on the Venezuelan-debt gravy train before payments ceased.
    — The Economist, 3 Nov. 2017
  • What’s a worse sin/crime — declaring an obvious murder a suicide to protect a perverted crony?
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Trump and his cronies have pulled out all the stops — short of arrests — to neuter and delegitimize legitimate journalism.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Perpetuating the Castros or some of their cronies….
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The mayor and his cronies in the village have heard that an inspector is on the way to examine their accounts and procedures.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 26 Mar. 2025

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