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Example sentences for "catty"

Lexicographically close words:
catties; cattivo; cattle; cattleman; cattlemen; catwalk; caubeen; caucus; caucuses; cauda
  1. You know I told you Maud had been catty about my sitting to Holcomb Lee.

  2. We count mankind and keep our census still, We count the stars that populate the night; But who, with all his computation, can Con catty nations right?

  3. Then turn not from poor Pussy in disdain, Whose pride of ancestry may equal thine; For is she not a blood-descendant of The ancient Catty line?

  4. The two men exchanged a half dozen rapid sentences and Ruth heard Stocking conclude: "Your Uncle Catty slipped me this here gun o' yours.

  5. Your Uncle Catty thinks he was a ghost even that day at Fort Fisher.

  6. Outside, down the street, Arty and Catty ran hand-in-hand to fetch the doctor, their sobbing checked by a mastering sense of their service and importance.

  7. First, Arty and Emmy, then Catty and Baby, then Willie and Dick, all solemn and shy.

  8. He was only a baby; and she had left him to run about with Arty and Catty as if he were a big boy.

  9. But on that prescription of his there is ginseng mentioned, so you had better make use of that catty of good quality which was bought the other day.

  10. We count mankind, and keep our census still, We count the stars that populate the night; But who, with all his computation, can Con catty nations right?

  11. Turn not from poor pussy in disdain, Whose pride of ancestry may equal thine; For is she not a blood descendant of The ancient Catty line?

  12. All you're good for is to work the small abacus, to divide a catty and to fraction an ounce, so finicking are you!

  13. Catty talked about the Old Year as if it was horrid and the New Year as if it was nice.

  14. Catty stood at the door, looking for her.

  15. Catty set them on the table with a sort of crash and ran out of the room, crying.

  16. Catty tried to look sorry, but you could see she was pleased because she had something to tell you.

  17. She thought of Roddy's nervous laugh when Catty brought in the first Yorkshire cakes.

  18. She saw him smile when he heard Catty say that Mamma had gone over to Mrs. Waugh's and wouldn't be back for tea.

  19. On New Year's Eve Jenny and Catty went to the Wesleyan Chapel at Ilford to sing the New Year in.

  20. Catty had been into Reyburn to shop and had called for the letters.

  21. Catty brought in the cakes, the hot buttered Yorkshire cakes that were never served for breakfast except on Christmas Day and birthdays.

  22. Catty climbed on a chair and took something from the top shelf.

  23. She made Catty put her bed between the two windows, and Mark made a bookshelf out of a piece of wood and some picture cord, and hung it within reach.

  24. Catty was crying as she tucked in the blankets.

  25. Through the barred windows of the basement she could hear Catty singing in the pantry: "'I am so glad that Jesus loves me, Jesus loves me, Jesus loves me.

  26. She lay back waiting for seven o'clock when Catty would come and call her.

  27. I have weighed the beef; there is half a catty too little.

  28. I's sorry that her's bigger Than my kitten used to be; For a kitten's awful sweeter Than a catty is to me.

  29. Mexican, for a 100-bundle load of stalks, weighing seven catty to the bundle.

  30. This herd of forty cows one of which was an albino, was giving an average of but 200 catty of milk per day, or at the rate of six and two-thirds pounds per head!

  31. After the confusion about the show was over, and Catty had been wakened into a vague jungle of tigers and lions and Shetland ponies, and put to sleep again, they subsided enough to remember the winding-up of the day.

  32. Tom halloed, and that blue-eyed pudge of a Catty pounded on the window with her fat little fist.

  33. Mother was hungry; so they were very leisurely, and joked and laughed to that extent that even Catty was uproarious when they were through.

  34. A catty old maid would go a thousand miles to get a chance to do it, but no man with sound blood in his veins and a heart in his chest would do it for high pay.

  35. You can say the most catty things when you try," she began, but finished with a low groan and sat with her eyes fixed on a pattern in the worn rug by the bed.

  36. Selfish fools--nasty, sly, and catty even over a corpse.

  37. Catty gave short, abrupt, and unwilling answers to all she asked, and Kate at length arose to take her leave.

  38. Catty did not seem to heed the remark; she felt that within her against which the words of consolation availed but little, and she sat brooding sorrowfully and in silence.

  39. And in a sort of envious bitterness Catty wished her a good-night.

  40. Catty Broon followed Barry, and never quitted him that night, which he spent walking up and down the long avenue of the demesne, watching and waiting for daybreak.

  41. Bending down her head, old Catty stood for several seconds motionless.

  42. Some set out for home with a catty or two of the divine flesh, which had been used in sacrifice; others stay till they wrangle and fight, and night puts an end to the entertainment.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "catty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.