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Example sentences for "bully"

Lexicographically close words:
bullock; bullocks; bullrushes; bulls; bullseye; bullying; bulrush; bulrushes; buls; bulwark
  1. He was accompanied by his pet crony, a fellow called Bully Joe Brinker, who usually did the dirty work Clarence allowed himself to think up.

  2. You know Clarence believes that Flash can make circles around my bully boat, and I'm wanting to give him a chance to prove it.

  3. Jack; "and unless we manage to show them the way in, it's good-bye to Clarence and Bully Joe!

  4. And besides, with so many aboard, the bully old Comfort might founder," Josh thought it necessary to remark.

  5. A shout from Bully Joe was the first knowledge Clarence had that his rival had taken the bit in his teeth, and shot ahead.

  6. He saw Bully Joe wave his hand in a derisive way, and then the Flash passed by at full speed, as though the race were still on.

  7. I guess Clarence has stuck somewhere on the way up; and as he didn't have any bully chums to pull him off he's there yet!

  8. Meanwhile his carriers fell heartily to hungry men's rations of bully beef and millet-meal.

  9. We gave our ponies their nosebags and ate our own bread and bully rather silently.

  10. This time he was too deeply moved for anger; he did not bully the king, but coolly read the paper twice over, and then, tearing it deliberately into four fragments, he flung it into the fire.

  11. In after-life, when the despairing mother sees her darling sink below himself, and earn the unenviable names of bully and sneak, can she blame him for shattering the ideal she blindly worshipped in his person?

  12. The glare of the bully shone alike under flapped hat and iron cap.

  13. You are only fit to bully children and girls, and such like!

  14. Just let me introduce you to a bully of the true sort--one whom we might call a professional bully--as contrasted with the amateur big- brother bullies of whom I have been speaking.

  15. A boy that can bear malice, and refuse quarter to a fallen foe, is very little different from a bully himself.

  16. We are bound to give the worst characters their due; and without attempting to excuse or justify a single blow the Bully ever struck, we must bear in mind this one thing.

  17. A gentleman cannot be a bully, and a bully cannot be a gentleman.

  18. The time must come when the little boy will find himself grown up and possessed of a muscle, and then the bully will find, to his astonishment, that he has tried his art once too often.

  19. You think to bully me as you bully your menials," he said quietly.

  20. Bully as Tebaldo was, he could, on occasion, become a coward.

  21. Mr. Romilly gives a very interesting and curious account of one of the last pirates, a desperado known as 'Bully Hayes,' once a boatman on the Mississippi.

  22. This whole business is bully beyond my highest expectations.

  23. What a bully world this would be if all mankind followed my system: stupid conventions all broken-down; the god of mirth holding his sides as he contemplates the world at play!

  24. No, but to feel that you need not let everybody bully you.

  25. She once fought a bully who "picked on" Axel at school.

  26. I didn't drop in to bully you this afternoon.

  27. I say, Campbell, what did you bully Clewer for?

  28. Fags bully each other horrid; but the upper forms are supposed to be swottin' for exams.

  29. I say, Sefton, what did you bully Clewer for?

  30. Well, now we're goin' to bully you because we jolly well choose.

  31. But I s'pose yeu means to take up yer fixins here in this feather-bed bully hotel afore yeu makes tracks?

  32. Bet my boots it's Bully Larkins and that old 'oss from Calerforney.

  33. Old Calerforney carved two of Bully Larkins' fingers off with his bowie, and Larkins bit off half t'other's nose.

  34. Young as was Nick Ribsam, there was not a boy in the school who dared attempt to play the bully over him.

  35. But that was no reason, as he looked at his privileges in this life, why he should not play the tyrant and bully over the honest little fellow and he proceeded at once to make life unbearable to Nicholas.

  36. Don't let them bully you into retracing your step.

  37. Don't let them bully you, you poor child!

  38. Your agent is to wheedle, and your bailiff to bully him; the one must promise, and the other threaten; but if both fail, you must try him yourself.

  39. Also she reflected that what she deserved was to marry some person with even a worse temper than hers, who would bully her at times and generally keep her straight.

  40. You know," he said genially, "it's awfully bully of you to come out and keep me company like this.

  41. He'd had a bully time all his life, thanks to her.

  42. That there are some officers who go the wrong way to work, who nag and bully and generally turn themselves into something even worse than nature intended is an undoubted fact.

  43. There ain't no bully tins in the perishing trenches, are there?

  44. You can do a great deal with yourself in a week if you bully hard.

  45. You're a bully good cook," he told her, and she smiled happily.

  46. I stood erect before my fellow-boy, and when he tried to bully me I punched his head.

  47. He never attempted to bully me out of an opinion or even out of a prejudice.

  48. Yes, get up and get out of here," said Bob, disgustedly, and he turned his back contemptuously on the bully and started for the house.

  49. He advanced on Buck, and before his flashing eyes those of the bully wavered and fell.

  50. Panting, Bob stood over him, waiting for Looker to get to his feet again, but when after a few seconds the bully opened his eyes, there was no sign of fight left in them.

  51. The bully hesitated for a time, but his position on the roof was precarious, and he saw that Bob was in earnest and meant to wait for him.

  52. Hot rage was in his heart and a resolve to have it out with the bully once and for all.

  53. It all happened last night after you fellows had gone home," said Bob, and then gave them an account of how he had surprised the bully and the fight that had followed.

  54. Buck Looker was entirely unconscious of his approach, and was still fussing with the aerial when Bob's voice reached him, pleasant enough, but with a steely note in it that almost made the bully lose his hold on the roof.

  55. The bully started back in surprise and consternation, which was not diminished when Joe followed his friend's example and stood at his side.

  56. I guess I taught that big bully a lesson that he won't forget in a hurry," he reflected.

  57. I would have had Bully [to] have dined with us, but he was engaged to his brother, qui donne a diner fort souvent.

  58. Bully is at present out of town, but to be sure, I shall have no difficulty in that negotiation.

  59. We had a debate and division upon my motion, and this Bill will at last not go down so glibly as Bully hoped that it would.

  60. Link Merwell was particularly obnoxious, and in the end Dave took matters in his own hands and gave the bully the thrashing he richly deserved.

  61. The former bully of the Hall was a trifle thin and pale, but his eyes were clear and his voice pleasant to hear.

  62. Don't you remember what a bully Gus Plum used to be, and how Chip Macklin used to toady to him!

  63. He was no longer that limb of Satan, that sardonic bully of the desert days, but a gay wood-god intent upon the gentle ways of wooing.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bad; beef; belligerent; blackjack; blade; bludgeon; bluff; bluster; boast; boss; bounce; brag; braggart; brawler; break; browbeat; bully; carp; castrate; coerce; colossus; compel; competitor; contender; contestant; cool; cow; cutthroat; dandy; daunt; delicious; demoralize; desperado; devil; disputant; domineer; dragoon; duelist; enforce; enslave; excellent; extort; fighter; galleon; gamecock; giant; gladiator; goon; gorilla; great; grind; gunman; hamburger; harass; heavy; hood; hoodlum; hot; hound; huff; intimidate; jerky; junk; keen; killer; knight; mean; menace; militant; nag; neat; nifty; oppress; oppressor; overawe; overmaster; override; pander; peachy; persecute; pest; pick; pimp; prey; push; rage; railroad; rant; rave; repress; ride; rioter; ripping; rival; rough; rowdy; ruffian; ruffle; rum; sadist; scrumptious; shame; slang; smashing; solid; splutter; sputter; stalwart; storm; struggler; stunning; subjugate; suppress; swagger; swaggerer; swashbuckler; swell; swingeing; sword; swordsman; tease; teaser; terrorize; threaten; thug; torment; tormentor; tough; twist; tyrannize; tyrant; unman; vapor; vessel; wizard; wrangler; yacht