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Example sentences for "chesty"

Lexicographically close words:
chested; chestnut; chestnuts; chestnutting; chests; chetah; cheu; cheurs; cheval; chevaliers
  1. Illustration: "You looked so blamed important and chesty when you started off.

  2. And Jack puffed himself out till he was as chesty as a pigeon on a barn roof, and swung off down the street looking mighty fine and manly from the rear.

  3. I have noticed that you are inclined to be a little chesty and starchy around the office.

  4. You looked so blamed important and chesty when you started off.

  5. I was wearin' a wide grin and still feelin' sort of chesty when I broke into his private office and handed him the bulletin.

  6. I, after sketchin' out how my entry had been scratched by the chesty one.

  7. Thus encouraged, the lengthy dancer let out another link and at the same time lowered her song from a high falsetto humming to a booming of chesty bass notes.

  8. He was so chesty over having all that money that he concluded he'd try a whirl on the block.

  9. I didn't want to be too chesty and spoil my dough, and so I only took $50 worth of it, scattering it around in $10 gobs.

  10. Andy, with chesty grunts, was fairly flailing the water with swift, short-arm strokes.

  11. Well, Dig wasn't a bit chesty the first day that he was ordered to shoot the sun," Dave laughed.

  12. But he waves aside my comedy stab and proceeds, chesty and serious, "Really, I am, though.

  13. And now you're as chesty over her as though you'd been workin' a miracle.

  14. But he's gettin' so chesty over this job of sunshine distributer that there's no holdin' him in.

  15. But somehow I ain't so chesty about havin' dug up a relation.

  16. One of these cold-eyed, chesty parties, Willis G.

  17. You can tell how chesty he feels, just by his strut.

  18. He takes it all meek and cheerful, and so far as I could make out he's most as useful around the office as a lot of others that gets chesty whenever they think what would happen to the concern if they should be sick for a week.

  19. There's times when I feel real chesty and can hear my feet make a noise when I walk; but this wa'n't one of 'em.

  20. I took that chesty stiff by the throat, and squeezed until his eyes popped.

  21. Aye, I was the chesty lad, and my step was high and proud, during that stroll.

  22. It made him real chesty and we all felt good about it.

  23. He felt pretty chesty to think that he had rescued a maiden, only he didn't know what to do with her, now that he had saved her.

  24. It made Skinny feel real chesty and we all of us were proud.

  25. We didn't feel quite so chesty when Mr. Norton had finished talking to us.

  26. I never saw Skinny so chesty as he was over catching that bear.

  27. Chesty handed his pole to Murray, grabbed up a lariat, and started for the newcomer, shouting: "Here comes some itch!

  28. Chesty Sutton had no cause to be a traitor, but the workings of the human mind cause queer actions at times.

  29. A chorus of denials arose and Chesty sauntered over to get details.

  30. Dutch stole a look askance at Ned and turned on Chesty a reproachful face.

  31. Chesty chuckled and returned to the sulky Bow-Wow with the warning.

  32. Chesty Sutton cast behind him at Buck a glance of miserable apology, seized the door-frame in passing, and delivered to Bow-Wow a well-placed and energetic kick.

  33. Chesty and Bow-Wow joined Ned to have a "night cap" and say good-bye, intending to start early next morning.

  34. Don't notice him, Cheyenne," advised Chesty in a disgusted aside.

  35. Big Saxe, very effectually hobbled at the ankles, was put in charge of Chesty Sutton who tersely informed him that the first false move he made he would find himself humpbacked all the way to his feet.

  36. Chesty Sutton dug him in the ribs with an elbow.

  37. When he thought he had mastered himself and was becoming calm and self-possessed, Chesty Sutton and the foreman entered with troubled looks on their faces.

  38. Chesty Sutton stood in the doorway of the dining-room.

  39. Chesty Sutton, late puncher for the Circle X, shoved his hand under Buck's nose with unmistakable friendliness.

  40. And I was part of it, a chesty sea-rover along with all these other chesty sea-rovers among the paper houses of Japan.

  41. Could I decline to drink with these two chesty shipmates?

  42. I like the bubbling play of wit, the chesty laughs, the resonant voices of men, when, glass in hand, they shut the grey world outside and prod their brains with the fun and folly of an accelerated pulse.

  43. Here were the chesty men again, rovers and adventurers, and while they didn't mind a grub famine, whisky they could not do without.

  44. Maybe it strikes you as a chesty bluff for a juvenile party like me to start with no more clew than that to round up in a few hours what a high-priced sleuth agency would take a week for.

  45. It'll do 'em a heap of good to try a real chesty laugh occasionally.

  46. No Chink ever taught Wong Li Fu how to put away two chesty individuals like Mr. Theydon and your painter, Mr. Winter.

  47. Then why don't you put your chesty somewheres else?

  48. That's Chesty with him," announced Frank, as two figures were discovered coming toward them.

  49. Old Hank and Chesty accompanied Professor Oswald by way of the railroad to a point nearest the ranch, where a vehicle would be awaiting them.

  50. Old Hank and Chesty declared that their orders had been to stay as long as Frank and Bob did; so they also took up their quarters in the apartments that went to make up what the little old gentleman had called Echo Cave.

  51. A few seconds of suspense followed, while Chesty was following the veteran into the first hollowed-out apartment.

  52. If he gets chesty I'll take his blamed plow away from him.

  53. What'd happen, I'd be chesty at the drop of the hat.

  54. So that's how I come to be interviewin' a chesty head waiter at the Tarleton twenty minutes later.

  55. What I'm most chesty over, though, is the fact that I've been through the wop and wiggle test without feedin' the fishes.

  56. Roll fronts of coats to the inside, so that they will retain their proper shape, also to give to them that chesty effect, which is very essential, in the pressing of all kinds of coats, and vests.

  57. Style--Peaked broad lapels, rolling to waist with two buttons on each side, natural shoulders, chesty effect.

  58. Style--Chesty effect, shoulders trifle wider than natural, shawl collar or peaked lapels rolling low and fronts well cut away below bottom button.

  59. Style--Norfolk with box plaits, yoke and belt or plain sack, chesty effect.

  60. Style--Single or double breasted for sacks, chesty athletic effect, two or three buttons, morning or English walking coat with flaps on side.

  61. No; he is beginning to get a little chesty lately.

  62. Being chesty and big-headed is responsible for more failures than anything else in this world.

  63. How chesty we are when the sun shines and the day is clear, but, oh!

  64. Don't get chesty over success, or discouraged over a seeming defeat.


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