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Example sentences for "manicure"

Lexicographically close words:
maniacs; manias; manibus; manic; maniculatus; manicured; manicuring; manicurist; manie; maniera
  1. The little manicure girl whom I met in the Soho restaurant," he replied promptly, "what on earth was her reason for wishing me to come and see you?

  2. One does not think of the manicure girl at such a time.

  3. He takes a room sometimes at the Milan Hotel and he sends for me to manicure his hands.

  4. How charming to have a manicure set presented to you!

  5. I don't know any manicure called Lorraine or anything else.

  6. When the manicure girls read this they will snort.

  7. Fortunately I don't know him as well as the manicure girls do, so there is room for this speculation as I watch him in the evening now and then.

  8. But the second time I dropped in for a manicure was not accident, nor the third time, nor the tenth--it was you.

  9. Then there is the manicure parlor, done in white tile, and stationary wash-stands by the Herman Casky Hygienic Company, Eighth Avenue.

  10. Now the lanky Englishman sat up, and apparently unconscious of the gaze of the troops about him, produced a nice leather box, opened it, extracted an instrument, and proceeded to manicure his nails.

  11. But who is this gentleman with the manicure set?

  12. Irma jumped up, upsetting the box of manicure powder, and scattering the other implements over the floor.

  13. As a bait, Ethelberga offered to lend Irma her manicure set.

  14. While waiting for Number Six they wired for Two Rooms and Two Baths and to have Relays waiting in the Manicure Parlor.

  15. It is my belief that every woman longs for the novelty of a Turkish bath and every man for the novelty of a manicure long before either dares to tackle it.

  16. Once there was a manicure lady who wouldn't take a tip, but she is now no more.

  17. In the seclusion of your bed chamber you picture yourself opening the door of the marble manicure hall and stepping in with a brisk yet graceful tread--like James K.

  18. You are astonished to note how many tools and implements it takes to manicure a pair of hands properly.

  19. Manicure girls are as careful about boiling a hand as some particular people are about bailing their eggs for breakfast of a morning.

  20. A manicure can be just as much a lady as a typist.

  21. She had been about to turn off at a corner, to carry out her intention of seeking employment in one of the many manicure parlors on a certain street.

  22. There's going to be manicure and hair-dressing parlors back of the millinery store.

  23. Besides, I thought I'd inspect what kind of a manicure you take of.

  24. Pushin' up to the coffee urn with the mob, and havin' a tongue sandwich slammed down in front of him by a grub hustler that hadn't been to a manicure lately was only a couple of the details Mortimer shies at.

  25. If it hadn't been for my tact Charles would have married that manicure girl years ago.

  26. Everybody going to the dogs in motor cars with manicure girls out of their parents' pockets--!

  27. Lady Staines looked at Winn, and said she didn't see that it was much worse to marry a manicure girl than one who looked like a manequin.

  28. The next morning at breakfast the manicure girl was again discussed, but in a veiled way so as not really to upset Charles before the wedding.

  29. Opposite to me sat that daughter of the house whose manicure scissors had terminated the painful episode of the butterfly.

  30. Her name is Clarice, and she is a manicure girl at the Astor.

  31. He's been quiet lately, and it's about time, or he'll have to get a job in the chorus again to pay his manicure bills.

  32. Nevertheless, pray be careful how you slight the manicure trade.

  33. I bet you a dozen boxes of gloves to a case of your manicure instruments that she doesn't.

  34. Earlier in the evening, that manicure game of yours--nothing but a damned cunning trick, eh?

  35. Lady Owbridge, Miss Fullgarney is coming down to Richmond this evening to manicure me.

  36. The reason I didn't was simply because I felt convinced that her desire to require a single room in the manicure business was somehow associated with the scheme she had at first suggested.

  37. Has any reason occurred to you for the young lady's unalterable decision that no other spot in the whole of London would do for her manicure parlor?

  38. Mr. Bundercombe and I left the shop and ascended the stairs leading to the manicure parlor.

  39. In a moment the door of the little manicure room was opened and closed.

  40. This is the old fool you could twist round your finger, who found the money for your manicure parlor, and who was in love with you, eh?

  41. Then, though her hands were trembling all the time, she filled a bowl with hot water and arranged a manicure set on a little table.

  42. You know women of the type who frequent the Futurist and the Montmartre are always running to the hairdressing and manicure parlours.

  43. There was a battery of white manicure tables, and then the hairdressers and the artists who lay on these complexions-- what do you think of mine?

  44. Hy glanced after him; then hummed (more softly, out of a new respect for Peter) a hesitation waltz as he cut the new picture in half with the manicure scissors and put Sue on Peter's side of the bureau.

  45. He had revived an old affair with a pretty manicure girl without stirring so much as a flutter of excitement within himself.

  46. Not yet the consolation Of manicure and cream; Not yet the barber dresses Our dusty tousled tresses; The thought of titivation Is still a distant dream; Not yet the consolation Of manicure and cream.

  47. Peter took her ideas to McGivney, and then to Guffey, and the result was that her talents were recognized, and by the lever of a generous salary she was pried loose from the manicure parlor.

  48. So Gladys was soon cheerful again, and she told Peter about Mrs. Warring Sammye's life; one picked up such valuable knowledge in the gossip at the manicure parlors, it appeared.

  49. She was what Peter called a "swell dresser," and it transpired that she worked in a manicure parlor.

  50. Even then I noticed Nettie was looking back to where Wilbur was tripping down from the platform, and Chester had his eyes glazed over on this manicure party.

  51. Then I seen his eyes glaze and point off across the hall, and darned if there wasn't this manicure party in a cheek little hat and tailored gown, setting with Mrs. Henry Lehman and her husband.

  52. And where (in this book) the young lady whose blooming presence in the barber shop in the basement invites you to manicure attentions gives rise to some very dramatic occurrences.

  53. A midwife had lived on the second floor, a dressmaker and a manicure and chiropodist on the third, and two coachmen and their families in the attics.

  54. She had very pretty hands, and I ended by supposing that she was having them secretly attended to by the manicure in the house which I suspected, and that she did not tell me of it, for fear that I should think her extravagant.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manicure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adornment; decoration; dress; groom; plume; preen; shear