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Example sentences for "gusto"

Lexicographically close words:
gust; gusta; gustatory; gustibus; gustily; gusts; gusty; gut; gute; guten
  1. Grannie Pinn with a delightful mixture of gusto and propriety.

  2. She saw him, hearing of the Buon Gusto restaurant and the life along the desert, withdrawing from her in shocked repugnance.

  3. She was going to act like a lady--no one would ever suspect she had once waited on table in the Buon Gusto restaurant, or been a barefoot, miner's kid.

  4. He found a place for Pancha with Maria Lopez, the Mexican woman who ran the Buon Gusto restaurant at Bakersfield and agreed to look after the girl for pay.

  5. All were seated upon the ground in a circle around the food, each one devoting careful attention to the work of demolishing some choice morsel with a gusto that would make Lucullus envious.

  6. We were weary of salt bacon, but good manners forbade our saying so, and we did our share with as much gusto as possible.

  7. The time to walk up Broadway at night, and feel a gusto about it, and Fifth Avenue by day, is when one is young.

  8. At hours there came a gusto to his work; words that he had heard or read, forgotten and never used, came back to him from heaven knows where, and sprang to his pen at the felicitous instance.

  9. His perfect clearness and ease of expression, his liveliness, wit, imagination, gusto and humour have lent a charm to all he wrote which to his contemporaries was irresistible and captivates even us, as soon as we read him.

  10. It may well puzzle a fellow-countryman of Erasmus to guess what a talent like his, with his power of observation, his delicacy of expression, his gusto and wealth, might have meant to Dutch literature.

  11. He rolled out the figures with gusto culminating in rage.

  12. The sketch showed an elephant sitting upright, imbibing with gusto from a bottle of some much-advertised tonic.

  13. She entered immediately into his concerns, read all his books in manuscript, criticised them, gave them more praise than they received from anyone else, and abused his enemies with a gusto equal to his.

  14. The curtain falls leaving this creature expressing with sickly gusto his opinion that the dead husband will now stand for ever between her and her happiness.

  15. He could carve you into numerous pieces, and season you with scriptural salt and pepper; and he would do it with a gusto so serious, that it would have been no unreasonable apprehension that he intended to eat you afterward.

  16. Grayson, smiling at the gusto with which Driscol dwelt upon the draught, and at the same moment he rose to set his cup on the table behind the official.

  17. All three kissed him with great gusto after the ancient English fashion.

  18. He had met Franz Josef on more than one occasion, he informed me, and remembered with gusto the compliments that had been paid him the last time about his ward's playing.

  19. The fluency and gusto with which he related these sordid details amazed me.

  20. In spite of her cold, she yielded with more gusto than usual to the meal, and even said that if Florrie 'continued to shape' they would have hot toast again.

  21. On the contrary, about half the adult population worshipped it as an exercise sacred and paramount, enlarging its importance and with positive gusto permitting it to monopolize their existence.

  22. A third makes the indecency pass for the depth of his researches and for a high gusto in virtu, till, from his seeing nothing in the finest remains of ancient art, the world by the merest accident find out that there is nothing in him.

  23. He would set about cutting up the carcass of a whale with the same greatness of gusto that Michael Angelo would have hewn a block of marble.

  24. Somewhat of a martinet, yet kindly withal and leading the hubbub in the kitchen with all the gusto of twenty years ago.

  25. That is what picnic parties do all over the world, and with such gusto all of them, even the Sunday-schools, Dorcases, W.

  26. We may reflect that the harsh system on which they are reared will enable them to enjoy life with infinite gusto when they are grown up, and that it is, therefore, a better system than the indulgent modern one.

  27. The workmen were always plying their pick-axes, with apparent gusto and assiduity, along the top of the building; bricks and plaster were always crashing down into the depths and sending up clouds of dust.

  28. The people of the hula were famous for this sort of accomplishment and prided themselves not a little in it as an effectual means of giving appropriate flavor and gusto to their performances.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gusto" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    activity; affection; alacrity; amusement; animation; anxiety; appetite; ardor; avidity; comfort; content; crush; eagerness; ease; ecstasy; elan; enjoyment; entertainment; enthusiasm; esprit; excitement; exuberance; fervor; fire; fondness; fruition; fun; furor; fury; gaiety; glow; gratification; gust; gusto; heart; heat; impatience; impetus; infatuation; inspiration; keenness; kick; life; liking; liveliness; love; luxury; mettle; palate; panache; passion; pertness; playfulness; promptness; punch; quickness; readiness; relish; satisfaction; savor; soul; sparkle; spice; spirit; spirits; taste; vehemence; verve; vigor; vim; vitality; vivacity; warmth; weakness; zeal; zest