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Example sentences for "daylights"

Lexicographically close words:
dayes; dayis; dayleet; daylie; daylight; daylong; dayly; daylye; days; daysman
  1. You wore thet white dress to knock the daylights out of men.

  2. He told me I looked like one of the devil's angels--and that I dressed to knock the daylights out of men.

  3. I must have been enough to scare the daylights out of any one.

  4. I been round live wires, where there ain't no long, white faces shoving board bills and whining the daylights out of me.

  5. Man, we nearly scared the daylights outta Ollie and Lucille!

  6. Bandershanks, she 'clares iffen I gets you in bad one more time, she's gonna beat the daylights outta me!

  7. Think of 'em, and then set your teeth and yank the 'tarnal daylights out of her.

  8. Why, Ma's mother used to warm her ears, and shake the daylights out of her, but it didn't do any good.

  9. The principal amusement the boys have is to scare the daylights out of visitors from the States by telling big stories about cyclones.

  10. Why, up to this day he licks the daylights out o' her, big as she is.

  11. Course, a lot of blamed fools will cuss the daylights out of me for letting him get away right under my nose, and all that, but let 'em talk.

  12. I thought they would have hallooed their daylights out.

  13. Thompson saw how much the Chinaman cared about oaths in general, so he got busy and pretty nearly scared the daylights out of Sing.

  14. Let us go in and scare the daylights out of him.

  15. Those things you hear are bombs from airplanes—our airplanes chasing the destroyers away from us and blasting the daylights out of the convoy we’ve scattered.

  16. Let’s get in the middle of that bunch of Jap ships and blast the daylights out of ’em!

  17. Now, they say, the minute the aero observer up above gives them range and so forth, they are ready to go ahead and batter the eternal daylights out of anything from the Kaiserschloss down to old Hindenburg himself.

  18. For the next ten minutes a whole battlefield of Boche fliers might have sneaked past the Chicago sentry and bombed the daylights out of Division Headquarters without any hindrance from Gabby.

  19. To his simple mind it thus appeared that the ghost of Eli Coleson must know his inmost thoughts and secret acts, and this idea had, as Tommy Beals expressed it, almost scared the daylights out of him.

  20. If I ever catch you fighting I'll whale the everlasting daylights out of you--and I'll do it without practising holding out my hand for a coin before the mirror, too!


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