noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
every nook and cranny
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We searched every nook and cranny.
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Everything moveable was taken out, every nook and cranny probed.
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Scores of supply vessels, tugs and survey ships filled every nook and cranny and even spilled over into the fish docks.
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The full survey will ensure every nook and cranny is inspected.
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We feel every ache in every nook and cranny, and the nooks and crannies themselves seem to multiply.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Advertisements of the grossest, most manipulative kind, insinuating their poison into every cranny of the country.
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Every nook and cranny is full of life, and new crannies are being made.
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He merely watched the obscure corners of the busy planet and poked his stubby nose into dusty crannies.
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Stewart digresses to fill every cranny in her heroine's past.
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The eccentric shape of the room made a cranny , and here he could create the illusion of solitude.
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These should be able to find nooks and crannies in which they will be safe.
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This Peeping Tom has put his eye to the nick or cranny in our walls and peers shamelessly in.
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We feel every ache in every nook and cranny , and the nooks and crannies themselves seem to multiply.