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Example sentences for "larrikins"

Lexicographically close words:
larned; larning; larns; larnt; larrikin; larrup; larst; larum; larva; larvae
  1. On Sunday night an unfortunate Chinaman was so severely injured by the Richmond larrikins that his life was endangered.

  2. Melbourne larrikins for a man with a good deal of hair on his face.

  3. Doolan's push' were a party of larrikins working .

  4. You will remember I told you how kind Mr. Hatteras was when those larrikins were rude to me in the Domain.

  5. But unfortunately for her, at the junction of two paths to my right, three of Sydney's typical larrikins were engaged in earnest conversation.

  6. He now burst into tears at his secret wealth being thus brought to light; judging, no doubt, from what he knew of the morals of his own countrymen, that Larrikins and I were going to appropriate it to our own use.

  7. With which withering rejoinder, Larrikins left us to enjoy ourselves with the food he contemned; though he probably went away to make a hearty dinner off the same at his own mess on the deck below, where his division "hung out.

  8. We then returned up the two hatchways to the middle deck above, the boy messenger Larrikins being sent down by the direction of the master-at- arms to fetch us to be measured for our uniforms, the tailor having come aboard.

  9. We fortunately stopped here for three days; and, though the men generally were not given leave ashore, Larrikins and I, being both in the first cutter, we had the chance of landing more than once.

  10. The ubiquitous Larrikins was the intervener.

  11. The aide read a message written in the heat of the engagement, but with the stencil-neatness that larrikins acquire in the military schools: “I am tired of carrying this dam bird and have gone into the fite.

  12. The three larrikins caught up with Stinky and the girl as they were crossing into Belmore Park.

  13. When they were served, the larrikins stood on one side crunching the crisp slices of potato between their teeth with immense relish as they watched the cook stirring the potatoes in the cauldron of boiling fat.

  14. For a while he endured this, playing popular airs that he hated and despised for the larrikins whom he hated and feared, a nightly butt and target for their coarse jests.

  15. The larrikins turned to the chipped-potato stall as a hungry dog jumps at a bone, eagerly sniffing the smell of burning fat as the potatoes crisped in the spitting grease.

  16. The larrikins sat down and gave their order, each paying for his own.


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