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Example sentences for "dapper"

Lexicographically close words:
dant; dantur; danza; daoine; daown; dappled; dappling; dar; daran; darauf
  1. For the dapper figure wheeled quietly and quickly about and stooped down at the very side of the humming patrolman.

  2. It was that of a dapper and thin-faced man who might have been anywhere from forty to sixty years of age.

  3. He seemed to catapult out at the stooping dapper figure, bearing it to the sidewalk with the sheer weight of his unprovoked assault.

  4. There the startlingly agile dapper figure struggled to throw off his captor.

  5. Yet he still loved her, and jealousy seared his soul as he recalled the sight of her in the arms of the dapper young Englishman.

  6. They went to where they found the dapper warriors standing in the court in a great press of welcoming knights.

  7. His spear he thrust through the body of the dapper Hun; this both maid and wife were seen thereafter to bewail.

  8. Then there rose in the land high knightly play from many a doughty champion; one saw a great rout of them whose youthful hearts beat high, and many a dapper knight and a good stood armed with shield.

  9. Pere Rossiter-Browne is a little dapper man, with a face like a squirrel.

  10. We were not bound to do so without the extra stamp," replied my dapper official.

  11. A dapper little gentleman, with a dry, authoritative air, then emerged and assumed charge of me.

  12. A couple of the visitors along the paths are discussing the situation with dapper Parisian steps and gestures.

  13. She was followed by a rather dapper young man of medium height, and who, most incongruously in that wild Northland, sported a single eyeglass.

  14. There was a thin, dapper manager of a small retail clothing store, very anxious to be excused, who declared, falsely, that he did not believe in swearing by the Bible.

  15. Save for his eyes and voice and brain, there was little about him to remind Betty of the all-conquering and dapper little Lothario of forty years back.

  16. The dapper little figure disappeared through the hall door, and Shane turned back to the group with a grunt of satisfaction.

  17. Sure he trades here," said the dapper young clerk.

  18. De la Mora's face grew deathly pale at the sight; his cheeks did play the woman, and one might deem him my lady's dapper page, catching his maiden whiff of blood.

  19. I gave no heed, thinking they meant not me, until a dapper little chap, all plumed and belaced, stepped in front of me with a most lordly air.

  20. Who likes to have a dapper phrenologist pronouncing on his fortunes?

  21. A dapper Staff Officer, so tall that he had to stoop to enter the compartment, drew a paper from his pocket.

  22. The other figure, short and dapper in build, quick and nervous in motion, need not be described.

  23. My dapper suitcase had suffered by the way, its neat sides were bruised and staved in, one leather corner was missing, another stood up like an attentive ear.

  24. It was that frail, slim, dapper thing, a straw suitcase.

  25. So it came to pass that the dapper young man called Wratslav, and the rough one called Ivan, left next day in a fast automobile whose limousine body seemed especially built to interfere as little as possible with its speed.

  26. The Minister looked inquiringly toward the dapper man, who then took up the story.

  27. Gentlemen all," said Stephen, with dapper modesty; and acted as if no excitement were current, and he had nothing to tell.

  28. As he was making this reflection, a dapper individual, in light trousers, a shiny hat, and with the indescribable air of being a travelling salesman, entered the car where Vesper sat in solitary grandeur.

  29. Nobody sick," pursued the dapper individual, taking off his hat, brushing it, and carefully replacing it on his head.

  30. Dapper was never perhaps a descriptive term for myself; but it is quite true that I owe a certain taste for the arts to the sort of people among whom I was brought up.

  31. Zouroff turned swiftly to the small, dapper man, and whispered in his ear.

  32. In a corner of the hall lounged a small dapper man, Peter, his valet, the lover of Katerina.

  33. I marked one dapper catbird, perched on a poplar limb, who cocked his head and heard the singer through, and then made that almost imperceptible gesture with which a great critic indicates his approval of a novice.

  34. During the whirl of the previous night, and by reason of the abiding joy of her morning's reverie, she had failed to miss the dapper Frenchman.

  35. Fired by example, the dapper French Count approached the piano and asked Elsie if she could play Beranger's "Roi d'Yvetot.


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