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Example sentences for "manicured"

Lexicographically close words:
manias; manibus; manic; maniculatus; manicure; manicuring; manicurist; manie; maniera; maniere
  1. What had those evil women with manicured nails accomplished in her absence?

  2. His slim, well manicured hands were clenched at his sides.

  3. All at once his well-manicured white hand crept down over her hand.

  4. Fräulein Sophie, that tall and resilient creature, with her appetizing smile, her distinguished bearing and her superbly manicured hands.

  5. Mrs. Pottle, in the wings, bit a newly manicured fingernail.

  6. In the seclusion of the cafe corner, Gabe laid one plump, highly manicured hand on Effie's smooth arm.

  7. The masculine Clark Streeter may be of the kind that begs a dime for a bed, or he may loll in manicured luxury at the marble-lined hotel.

  8. Would you insist on my being manicured too?

  9. Keenly he scrutinised the room, his well-manicured hand caressing his chin.

  10. Now and again he ran a well-manicured finger down the type-written index and turned the pages over quickly to refer to a statement, a plan, or a photograph.

  11. He extended a manicured hand while he braced himself on the silver knob of his cane.

  12. The man stroked his moustache with a manicured hand as he nodded toward the waiting mount.

  13. He looked down and inspected his manicured nails for a long moment, then continued.

  14. She saw his manicured hand, womanish except for a scattering of black hairs, reaching across the desk to her, in a reek of too much hygiene and primping, presenting a Manila folder like the one Hunter now cherished, possibly the same one.

  15. Who still lived, if you could call it that, in the curiously ordered world of yellow brick and manicured lawns that was Claiborne Hospital.

  16. They sit here with their manicured hands resting idly on their robust, waistcoated tummies and stare out on the world like little clay gods.

  17. The cowpuncher found a bunch of manicured fingers in his rough brown paw.

  18. The lyric baritone, a youngster from the Rhineland making his debut in opera, attracted me at the very first rehearsal by his groomed look and beautifully manicured finger-nails.

  19. You knew at once you had a man of the world before you, a man familiar with the most exclusive club life, valeted, perfumed and manicured irreproachably, and you succumbed accordingly.

  20. He's costumed neat but expensive, and his lily-white hands are manicured to the last notch.

  21. Why, I expect he begun havin' his nails manicured before he was ten, and has had his own man to lay out his dinner clothes ever since he got into long pants.

  22. I want to be awf'ly young again, and to have a smooth face and manicured hands, and lots of admiration.

  23. While she built, she manicured her finger nails, looking at them critically.

  24. I manicured him for his first society portrait--a full-length of Mrs. Harmon B.

  25. His grey tweed suit bore evidence of having been cut by a smart tailor, and as he lolled back in his big saddle-bag chair he contemplated the fine diamond upon his white, well-manicured hand, and seemed entirely at his ease.

  26. He was silent for a few moments, his brows knit thoughtfully, his eyes upon the fine ring upon his well-manicured hand.

  27. Of course, when the hair is shampooed or the nails manicured with particular care, or the complexion subjected to a thorough cleansing by steam or massage, then more time is necessary.

  28. It should be soft and yielding and caressing--with small, dainty joints, a satiny surface and carefully manicured nails of shell-pink tint.

  29. His Highness did not often offer his manicured hand to others, and at this I was, I admit, greatly surprised.

  30. She has to take the greatest care of her own appearance, and get her nails manicured and her hair waved when he is at home.

  31. In this way we looked over heaps of little earwiggeries trimmed with clematises and pots of geraniums hanging from the balconies, with their poor roots higher than their heads, and manicured lawns right down to the water's edge.

  32. She had no stockings at all on her clean manicured feet, but a kind of open-work boot of fancy leather.

  33. The cell door closed and Pete composed his lean, gambler's face, eyed his manicured nails and with a sigh sat down on the wooden cell bench to wait for his lawyer.

  34. Say, ten dollars to one that these manicured millionaires don't mean any more than the Governor's pardon does to Carl Wanderer.

  35. Then her face blanched and she dug her manicured nails deep into her skin as she thought of a worse fate than death that could overtake her.

  36. In short, Grace Harmon was accomplished to the tips of her tapering, carefully manicured fingers.

  37. Her manicured nail pressed the buzzer three times to signal she was going to lunch.

  38. Gravenard and the guards toward the inner door with a sweep of long yellow pencil in perfectly manicured fingers.

  39. Smiling, he advanced to Miss Nickerson and extended a white, well-manicured hand.

  40. His manicured fingers did lift towards his face, but he changed his mind and pulled a silk handkerchief out of his sleeve and carefully smoothed his hair back from his forehead.

  41. His small manicured hand flew out to my great one.

  42. It pays us that Pepper keeps his nails manicured and knows his way about a wine-list.


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