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Example sentences for "hobnobbing"

Lexicographically close words:
hobnail; hobnailed; hobnails; hobnob; hobnobbed; hobo; hoboes; hobos; hobs; hoc
  1. Hobnobbing as I was with Irving and Ellen Terry, they had evidently taken me for somebody, and, under that mistaken impression, at once proceeded to extract copy from me.

  2. Now dancing at the Tuileries is a very good thing in its way; elbowing a future emperor, and hobnobbing with a scoundrel disguised as a gentleman, are things to brag of.

  3. But what white man is hobnobbing with foreigners?

  4. She told me about the chess playing—Lieutenant Cary hobnobbing with Krome, Punaro and men from the galley.

  5. But when you see two suspected ones hobnobbing it begins to look as though something is brewing.

  6. Two or three "stuck-up" Engineers had come out from St. Louis and Detroit, and Loring and they had been actually hobnobbing with the department commander.

  7. Between that night and the next morning he disappeared, and at last accounts was hobnobbing with Burleigh at Gate City.

  8. It would have made a pretty picture--the two of you hobnobbing over a little marble table.

  9. The sight of Septimus hobnobbing with a Zouave outside a humble wine merchant's had drawn from him the exclamation of surprise.

  10. He was hobnobbing with the Rattenheimers and one and another all day long.

  11. To see you hobnobbing like a housemaid with these people!

  12. She's been hobnobbing with the fellow all the way down from the Irrawaddy, so I'm told.

  13. He's hobnobbing with his new pet, Howard, and somebody'll get the benefit of an official letter this morning.

  14. It's the last of that sort of hobnobbing you'll ever see.

  15. The shackles securely on, I was left to content me as I could, with the door ajar and my two jailers hobnobbing before it.

  16. But you, Richard; how comes it that I find you taking your ease at Jennifer House and hobnobbing with his Majesty's officers when the cause you love is still in such desperate straits?

  17. There are people who rather like hobnobbing with Beaverbrook.

  18. Who is this apparition we see "hobnobbing with generals and senators and other humbugs"?

  19. Here is Ariadne and Kate Greenaway hobnobbing with Professor Rauwenhoff!

  20. Here's James's 'Pragmatism' hobnobbing with 'The Freedom of the Will.

  21. What's old man Frazier hobnobbing with drum-boys for?

  22. Within a year most of us were hobnobbing with the class above and lording it over the class below.

  23. Seated convivially on tomb-slabs, awaiting the arrival of a hearse and mourning cortege, is the author of the mischief hobnobbing with his friends and allies.

  24. Lola wondered how long it would be before she also would be spending her spare time in that room, hobnobbing with the various members of the family below stairs.

  25. The big canvas tent on Bakery Hill, where the meeting was to be held, was already lighted; and at the tinkle of a bell the diggers, who till then had stood cracking and hobnobbing outside, began to push for the entrance.

  26. Lord Belpher, although his whole being revolted against what practically amounted to hobnobbing with a butler, perceived that he had committed himself to the discussion.

  27. He seemed to spend all his spare time frolicking with the man on the golf-links and hobnobbing with him in his house.

  28. And am I not hobnobbing and making myself accessible to the people, instead of being exclusive and going straightway to the pasha's, shutting myself up and permitting none but a few privileged persons to intrude upon my privacy .

  29. But ere I reach the summit of the ridge a violent thunder-storm breaks over the hills, and I seem to be verily hobnobbing with the thunder and lightning, that appears to be round about me, rather than overhead.

  30. They are hobnobbing with the Stony Road gang to-day.

  31. Mark's been away at school most of his life and when he came home this vacation, the first thing we knew he was hobnobbing with that gang.

  32. His father was my father's chore-man, and here are his daughters hobnobbing with crowned heads!

  33. As Polly emerged from the kitchen, her face very red from hobnobbing with the stove, she found one of the girls of the yellow buckboard standing in the doorway.

  34. How long is it since you have been hobnobbing in that quarter?


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