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Example sentences for "proper person"

  • Justices or other legal authority must satisfy themselves not only that the individual is a lunatic, but also that he is "a proper person to be sent to an asylum.

  • This answer arrived only the day preceding that fixed for the wedding, and at the very moment they were expecting his lordship in proper person.

  • You are evidently not a proper person, but you hear for once what a proper person thinks!

  • At this meeting a very large majority voted that I was a proper person to represent that city.

  • On the same day, I think it was, there was a meeting called at the Crown and Anchor, to nominate someone, as a proper person to be elected for Westminster, in the room of Sir Samuel Romilly.

  • I am informed from all Parts, that there are great Canvassings in the several Clubs about Town, upon the chusing of a proper Person to sit with me on those arduous Affairs, to which I have summoned them.

  • And whether they thought him a proper Person to attend one in his Condition?

  • This circumstance serves to show how difficult it is to get a proper person for so arduous an undertaking.

  • Little or nothing: how then could he ascertain who was a proper person to legislate or judge of the laws?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proper person" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    give effect; half cupful; image worship; little doll; love hath; member when; official account; proper amount; proper attention; proper condition; proper consistence; proper division; proper motion; proper name; proper names; proper noun; proper order; proper position; proper thickness; properly made; properly understood; properly used; property rights; skin tough; topped hill; white powder