The phrase "crooked lines" refers to lines that are not straight or even. It is used to describe something that is not in perfect alignment or is not following a direct path. Full definition
But God writes straight with crooked lines, and he used his most unworthy servant Martin to create in our public life a luminous moment of moral truth about what Gunnar Myrdal rightly called «the America dilemma,» racial justice. (firstthings.com)
Are individual rights based on societal righteousness within the parameters of cultural soundness for so being as the kindled crooked line drawn, distanced and so bellicosely thwarted by religious austerities so choosing? (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
Results: Crowded together on a titanium dioxide surface, carbon dioxide molecules relinquish their free - tumbling ways to form crooked lines and cling to molecules in nearby lines, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. (pnnl.gov)