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Example sentences for "rakishly"

Lexicographically close words:
rakers; rakes; raki; raking; rakish; raku; rald; rale; ralement; rales
  1. She would have continued, but footsteps sounded on the stone stairs, and Jadar emerged beaming from the stairwell, his turban set rakishly on the side of his head.

  2. His floral turban was set rakishly to one side in the latest style, and his purple gauze cloak was too effeminate for anyone but a eunuch or a dandy.

  3. She wore her old black bonnet, and the wind had tipped that rakishly to one side.

  4. She was so stern that even her rakishly tipped bonnet did not seem at all funny.

  5. Meanwhile Mr. Trenchard, having relighted his pipe, and set his hat rakishly atop his golden wig, strolled up the High Street, swinging his long cane very much like a gentleman taking the air in quest of an appetite for supper.

  6. The inverted waste-basket was cocked rakishly upon an arm of the chandelier.

  7. His hat is pulled down rakishly in front.

  8. In the Flemish towns the civil guards wore a blue coat, so long in the skirts that it had to be buttoned back to permit of their walking, and a hat of stiff black felt, resembling a bowler, with a feather stuck rakishly in the band.

  9. He was of medium height, wore high leather gaiters, and a grey felt hat with a long red quill thrust rakishly through the band.

  10. Miss Evelina could barely see the tip of the red feather that bobbed rakishly in his hat.

  11. There was something jaunty in the Piper's manner, aside from the drooping red feather which bobbed rakishly as he went home, whistling.

  12. She carried a parasol of the same color and material as her dress, while her head was crowned with a sweeping, rakishly plumed Rembrandtesque hat worn at a killing angle.

  13. They left New York at eleven and it was well past a hot and beatific noon when they moved rakishly through Pelham.

  14. When he was close upon them he stopped and lifted the rakishly tilted gray hat.

  15. His gray hat was tilted rakishly up at the back and down in front, and a handkerchief was knotted loosely around his throat.

  16. It was the Governor, rakishly trigged out in knickerbockers, with a cap smartly tilted over one ear and a scarf snapping about his face in the lively wind.

  17. He paced the floor for a moment, his hands thrust deep in his trousers pockets, his silk hat tipped rakishly on one side of his head.

  18. Her spectacles had crept up and round her head, and had a rakishly benign appearance.

  19. He was in evening dress, and an opera hat was set rakishly on the back of his head.

  20. He rose with an air of importance, and laid down his pipe; pulled down his waistcoat, and set his smoking-cap a little rakishly on one side of his head; and sauntered out.

  21. With restored good humour Daniel Meggison set the old skull cap rakishly at one side of his head, and went downstairs, whistling softly to himself, and seeing before him a golden vision that was not soon to fade.

  22. We could see their lances, held rakishly upstanding across the saddle, then the tail of the near horse whisking to and fro.

  23. Judge Blenso wore a new English mackintosh and an olive felt hat, rakishly turned up in front.

  24. Only now Uncle Oliver's large face was faintly flushed, his large felt hat was pulled over his eyes, his very large cigar was rakishly uptilted toward the heavens.

  25. Looming above them were what appeared to be two giant prehistoric birds, streaks of gleaming silver over three hundred feet in length, with pen-sharp noses that dipped rakishly downward.

  26. In the soft rice-paper glow of the lamp she looked rakishly disheveled.

  27. His black moustaches were waxed into sharp points, and turned rakishly upward above lips upon which a sneering grin appeared.

  28. Annaie, wears his cap rakishly on one side, and attends to his business; and he makes very good potages and rĂ´tis, considering the small prices that are charged.


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