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Example sentences for "proprietory"

Lexicographically close words:
proprieties; proprietor; proprietorial; proprietors; proprietorship; proprietress; propriety; propriis; proprio; proprios
  1. A proprietory feeling in them which exhausted itself in dictating the surface details of their lives had been the extent of her interest.

  2. She assumed the proprietory gestures remembered from her childhood when she had "played house" with little boys and girls, and guided Keegan to stretch his legs on the window seat.

  3. There was a proprietory tone in his voice which Donald was quick to note, and it pleased him when Miss Nickerson replied, "I'll be with you in a minute!

  4. He had neither a proprietory interest nor a monopoly of her company, and he could not expect her to avoid the society of all men-folk but Donald McKenzie.

  5. The king, who had taken over the proprietory rights of Arlington and Culpeper, demanded that the quit-rents be paid in specie instead of tobacco.

  6. Before a settlement was made the king in 1673 granted the whole of Virginia to the Earl of Arlington and Lord Culpeper with full proprietory rights for thirty-one years.

  7. He was found guilty by the jury, but the Recorder reserved a case for the opinion of the Court of Criminal Appeal, as to the proprietory of the conviction in point of law.

  8. All these are examples in which forms of proprietory right, distinctly new, were recognised and preserved.


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