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Example sentences for "purty"

Lexicographically close words:
pursute; pursy; purtended; purtier; purtiest; purulent; purus; purvey; purveyance; purveyaunce
  1. Cause it would be your job to feed the animals, an' to do it right you'd hev to git up early in the mornin' an' work purty nigh to midnight all the forty days the flood lasted.

  2. We're south o' the hollow an' Wyatt an' his band are purty shore to come out o' the north.

  3. Oh, we hears things purty quick in these mountains.

  4. They'll come when they know it, an' they'll know it purty soon; news travels powerful fast.

  5. He called him 'Nim' an' that's purty near right.

  6. Fanny is very feeble in every way, voice is weak and her step most uncertain, but she is straight of figure, and was ripping up smoking tobacco sacks with which her daughter is to make 'a purty bed spread'.

  7. I wouldn't wonder if we was mostly purty much alike, come to shake us down.

  8. Tis a purty craft an' a purty crew, but they du desarve it.

  9. Tis a purty crew to go herring driftin'!

  10. And it took purty near as long to stuff the cracks with clay, and cover the window openings with oiled paper.

  11. As I was saying, lad, it was the first of the year till we got into the huts, and since then we've been sufferin' purty near as bad.

  12. We got enough fac's now to point purty conclusive to who done it.

  13. It's a purty mean man that'll lock up his cabin in the woods.

  14. She's so fairy-like and so purty that the crowds just naterally love 'er to death.

  15. Then he got to drinking so 'ard that he did fall off, 'urting 'imself purty bad.

  16. He's going to get rid of Tom Braddock purty soon.

  17. You mark my words, purty soon his neighbors will be advertisin' for him to come home and forgive 'em.

  18. She was purty as a pictur' an' smart as you'd find 'em anywhere.

  19. Well, ye best look out--he looks purty tough.

  20. I had a peep at him in the stall, an' he's lookin' purty fit.

  21. Git hould of the girl Cynthie, an' give her the tip that things is purty bad.

  22. I reckon on account of the purty shadows down in the brush, and the soft light, eh?

  23. Bless your good heart, and your purty face, Miss," said the old woman, as the tears came into her eyes.

  24. She might have one to home, purty nigh finished.

  25. When a man says, "I 'low that is a purty peart sort of a hoss," he understates for the sake of emphasis.

  26. Even to his wife he only said that he felt purty consid'able shuck up like, and that the boys would have to get on to-night without him.

  27. Gideon did not feel any more honest pleasure in chastising the Midianites than did Bud in sending Pete Jones away purty consid'able shuck up like.

  28. Purty peart kind of a master," remarked the old man to Bud, after Ralph had gone to bed.

  29. We felt purty bad about that, an' knowin' those fellers as we did made us feel worse.

  30. I'm purty fond of dogs, but they got one fault--they're snobs.

  31. How long d'ye reckon a purty gal like Mavis was a-goin' to wait fer you?

  32. Well, we're a purty rough people down here, but you're welcome to all we got.

  33. I heard the shots soon as I got inside the door, and purty soon I met Steve runnin' down the stairs.

  34. Now, I figger," Jeffers said, "that you can purty much forget about Lew Mellon.

  35. I snuck a spot o' brandy aboard, and just by purty ole coincidence, there's a bottle right over there in the speaker housing.

  36. Been purty much all over the woods, I reckon.

  37. Her shoes war most wore off with walkin', an' her purty leetle feet all blistered an' sore.

  38. When Casey says he'll do a thing he comes purty near doin' it.

  39. We been cleanin' up purty good money--but Mart says the market ain't what it was; too many gone into the business.

  40. I was a purty good swimmer as a gal and I ain't so bad even now.

  41. I knowed somebody would be along for her purty soon," the old man chuckled.

  42. But then, Dora she makes fools out of all of them with her purty face and her coaxin' ways, miss.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    purty good; purty soon