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Example sentences for "reefer"

Lexicographically close words:
reeded; reeds; reedy; reef; reefed; reefers; reefing; reefs; reek; reeked
  1. I; "did ye ever see a reefer in a wherry, or sitting out 'o the starn-sheets?

  2. He acknowledged that it was bad enough to kill a dog, but that a reefer could stand it.

  3. Angelic words, when the invited reefer has a clean shirt, or collar, and a decent uniform.

  4. Shortly after, the door was flung open by the nurse, and a new edition of an embryo reefer appeared in her arms, and very manfully did the play of his lungs make everyone present aware that somebody had made his appearance.

  5. Luella's golden curls bobbed as she walked: they bobbed over her blue reefer jacket which was buttoned snugly over her plump body.

  6. A reefer properly belongs in the category useful.

  7. Being outgrown, it showed several inches of my thin little wrists, and being a reefer and tightly buttoned, it showed of my pink and white glory a little more than the hem.

  8. I ascended the platform steps with my reefer still buttoned tightly over my chest.

  9. He stood with hands thrust in reefer pockets, feet wide apart, glancing fiercely from Brisley to Gunn, and from Gunn back again to Brisley.

  10. His reefer jacket fitted him faultlessly, but his trousers were cut so unfashionably narrow that the protuberant thigh muscles and the line of a highly developed calf could quite easily be discerned.

  11. He laid his hat, cane and overall upon a chair, and from a pocket of his reefer jacket took out a big notebook.

  12. Rapidly he removed his reefer and his waistcoat, folded them, and placed them neatly beside his overall.

  13. Then, tilting his bowler further forward, he thrust his hands into his reefer pockets, and stood staring toward the door, beyond which lay the room of the murder, in darkness.

  14. Once she stopped, and with hands thrust into her reefer pockets, stood looking off towards the lighthouse on Long Point.

  15. Scarf, cap and thick knitted reefer were all of a warm rose shade.

  16. And so I have now fallen upon the real Simon Pure, and the reefer has had the good fortune to distance the dragoon.

  17. Bracing myself, I twisted a reefer around my wrist for better hold, determined, if he moved an inch nearer, to kick him square in the face.

  18. He was a reefer under me on the Hinchinbrook.

  19. When I was a reefer on the Cerberus she was cruising around here, and one calm day a party of us received permission to go ashore on that pile of stone, and we managed to reach the top.

  20. I accordingly went below to mix myself a stiffener, and found the officer a cool head, for, in spite of all Snelling could do, the reefer himself had got provoked, whereas the sharp Mr Webb was only a little brisker than before.

  21. The cadets on the poop roared with laughter, and an old lady with two daughters seemed to eye Snelling doubtfully through an opera-glass, as the reefer ogled both of them at once.

  22. Mishenka, no longer wearing his swallow-tail but in his reefer jacket, came in, and without speaking lighted two candles; then he went out and returned a minute later with a cup of tea on a tray.

  23. The footman's laughter and words, his reefer jacket and moustache, gave Anna Akimovna a feeling of uncleanness.

  24. Hervey drew up the left sleeve of his reefer jacket, and showed on his bared wrist the symbol of the sun and the encircling serpent.

  25. Braddock started and flung himself across the room to seize Hervey by the lapels of his reefer coat.

  26. Mr. Reefer with the air and tone of a man who means to be courteous, but has no time or information to waste.

  27. It wasn't Andrew Reefer I told Clifford to interview," laughed Mr. Harmer.

  28. Mr. Reefer proceeded to tell her, and Patty's pencil flew as she scribbled down his terse, pithy sentences.

  29. You can tell your news editor that you know as much about the railroad bill as Andrew Reefer knows.

  30. I didn't know Reefer was in town, but even if I had I wouldn't have thought it a particle of use to send a man to him.

  31. Mr. Reefer looked at Patty for a few moments with a face about as expressive as a graven image.

  32. How did you ever beguile or bewitch Andrew Reefer into giving you an interview?

  33. For the first time, Patty thought she might rather like politics if she understood them--and they did not seem so hard to understand when a man like Mr. Reefer explained them.

  34. The interview with Mr. Reefer came out with glaring headlines, and the Chronicle had its hour of fame and glory.

  35. Patty had just time to seat herself at the table, spread out her paper imposingly, and assume a businesslike air when Mr. Reefer came in.

  36. Mr. Reefer with a shade more geniality in his tone.

  37. Captain Mayo ducked low to dodge a guy, and the spikes hooked themselves neatly into the back of his reefer coat.

  38. The crackle of the legal paper in his reefer pocket only accentuated his gloom.

  39. And you could put him in your reefer pocket.

  40. He had brought the hammer and chisel in his reefer pockets, and set at work on the sheathing over his head, having picked by touch and sense of locality a section which he considered to be nearly amidship.

  41. The cadets on the poop roared with laughter, and an old lady with two daughters seemed to eye Snelling doubtfully, through an opera-glass as the reefer ogled both of them at once.

  42. Scarce had I time to feel some one beside me as wet as myself, whether the reefer or the Frenchman I didn't know, when crash came another boat with her bows fairly down upon our gunwale, out of the dark.

  43. He did his best to soften my case, as I saw by his whole manner during dinner; after which, no sooner had the reefer had his one glass of wine, than he was sent on deck to look out to windward.

  44. He is dressed in a very short reefer jacket, a flowered waistcoat, breeches very full at the top and very narrow at the ankle, with a large check pattern on them, and yellow boots without heels.

  45. I steered cautiously for the cove, fearfully though the swell bore in, breaking over the rocks outside of it; and the reefer and I had to spring one after the other for our lives, just as the bowman prized her off into the back-wash.

  46. A sailor hat and an old tan-colored reefer lay on the stern seat.

  47. But the girl in the reefer said:-- “Shut up there!

  48. The girl in the reefer picked up his valise.

  49. Dick, bounding down the stairs, snatching at his cap and reefer as he started, though he could not have told why he picked up these garments.

  50. So I carried my watch in the little change pocket in my reefer in order to be able to look at it frequently.

  51. Years went by, and he grew apace, the pride and delight of us all; and as he evinced the greatest fondness for me and the accounts I gave him of my life at sea, I had him appointed a reefer in the navy.

  52. What caused that woman to start as the girl took the tiny reefer by the hand, and impulsively clasped those white hands together, while her heart beat in yearning throbs, and her bosom rose and fell like billows by the shore?

  53. Blowing his nose in a dirty, crumpled-up handkerchief and pulling down his grey reefer jacket, Ivan Matveyitch goes through the hall and the drawing-room to the study.

  54. The man was dressed in a gentleman's reefer jacket, shabby, but bound with wide new braid, a plush waistcoat, and full black trousers thrust into big high boots.

  55. He had already left the army service, and wore a roomy serge reefer jacket, very full trousers, and magnificent neckties.

  56. He was wearing a short reefer jacket and indoor slippers; he walked like a man with the gout, rolling slightly from side to side and rubbing his hands.

  57. It has invented intellectual workers in the country, and you may search through all our villages and find at the most some lout in a reefer jacket or a black frock-coat who will make four mistakes in spelling a word of three letters.

  58. Gould tells us, in inducing him to substitute conventional headgear for the enormous tropical straw hat, or the reefer coat and flannel shirt, that he habitually wore.

  59. When, after breakfast, he put on his reefer and over that the canvas coat, he looked and felt like a cocoon.


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