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Example sentences for "rummy"

Lexicographically close words:
ruminative; rummage; rummaged; rummaging; rummer; rumor; rumored; rumores; rumors; rumour
  1. Oh my, what a rummy go, oh crikey, what a strange revelation, Has occurred in Lambeth workhouse a little while ago, And through the parish is causing great sensation.

  2. It was bound to be a lame dog, anyhow--and it might as well've been Rummy as anybody.

  3. I'll clear out and say nothing--although I've told Rummy enough already to give him his suspicions.

  4. You don't think we ought to see Rummy home?

  5. You see, I seen him taking Rummy home that night--and he cleared out next morning.

  6. We ain't discovered yet who put it over on Rummy and Jun on the day of Mrs. Rouminof s funeral.

  7. Yes," Watty butted in, "Rummy ought to hold a few of the good stones, Jun.

  8. Pretty soon I went up the side road--I don't know why--and came to the rummy farm house.

  9. It was only about nine o'clock, but they were all drunk and the rummy looking farm house was a place for bad women to stay in.

  10. And when this hold-up comes off I beat it till that Cuban rummy with the medals on his dicer rides a live horse up my back.

  11. I tell you, he's the most deceitful rummy I ever seen.

  12. Rummy accent and all that, but nevertheless a soft and pleasing voice.

  13. Rummy how things worked out for the best, however scaly they might seem at the moment.

  14. Rummy he had never noticed before how extraordinarily like his mother he was.

  15. Rummy as the gadget might appear, it had been the right thing to do.

  16. You say rummy things and you do rummy things.

  17. Rummy you should say that," he ejaculated.

  18. Rummy I don't remember spotting that you wrote it.

  19. But the rummy part is I feel just as though I still had a body.

  20. It was a rummy way of losing a jewel, come to think of it.

  21. She wrote a letter for me in their rummy lingo to my young man!

  22. New, it was new from East to West this rummy old world that I dreamed I knew, How can I tell you the things that I saw with my--what shall I call 'em?

  23. Rummy thing, though, that you should have kept the game going so well that you haven't even added to your wardrobe, or changed your habits at all.

  24. Proud of the way in which he had accommodated the party, he went on deck, and assured the captain that it was all right, but that they were "a rummy lot.

  25. Been telling them some of your rummy stories?

  26. He'll make you roar with his rummy stories.

  27. Rocky Todd, the pal I went to stay with, is a rummy sort of a chap who lives all alone in the wilds of Long Island, and likes it; but a little of that sort of thing goes a long way with me.

  28. It seemed rummy to me, though, that the parcel of nice books was still there with the string and paper on it.

  29. Do you know, all through dinner I had a kind of rummy idea that there was something I'd forgotten, but I couldn't think what?

  30. In this matter of shimmering into rooms the chappie is rummy to a degree.

  31. It wasn't anything he said or did, mind you, but there was a rummy something about him all the time.

  32. I suppose it seems rummy to you," I said, "but the fact is New York often bucks chappies up and makes them show a flash of speed that you wouldn't have imagined them capable of.

  33. It was only then that I really got on to the extremely rummy attitude of the chappie, in view of the fact that a quite unexpected mess of the right stuff had suddenly descended on him from a blue sky.

  34. It looked black and sinister in the dusk, and I couldn't help feeling, you know, like one of those Johnnies you read about in stories who are lured to lonely houses for rummy purposes and hear a shriek just as they get there.

  35. One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room.

  36. Take, for instance, the fairly rummy matter of Lady Malvern and her son Wilmot.

  37. Mr. Todd's aunt has written him a rather rummy letter, Jeeves, and we want your advice.

  38. Take the rather rummy case, for instance, of dear old Bicky and his uncle, the hard-boiled egg.

  39. I had a most frightful headache when I woke up, and he brought me a sort of rummy dark drink, and it put me right again at once.

  40. It was rummy when you came to think of it.

  41. The thought of strolling with this rummy specimen undeniably gave me a most unpleasant sinking feeling.

  42. I Don't know why it is, but there's something about the rural districts after dark that always has a rummy effect on me.

  43. Then I found my mind turning to another aspect of this rummy affair.

  44. The sight of the rope against the whitewashed wall and the thought of the bloodsome uproar which was about to smash the peace of the night into hash served to deepen that rummy feeling to which I have alluded.

  45. I'll tell em how I blasphemed and gambled and wopped my poor old mother-- RUMMY [shocked] Used you to beat your mother?

  46. RUMMY [running indignantly to him to scold him].

  47. Rummy takes the three plates and mugs; but Shirley takes back his mug from her, as there it still come milk left in it.

  48. RUMMY [screaming at him from the loft] You lie, you dirty blackguard!

  49. But if you would give a shilling or two to poor Rummy Mitchens!

  50. Consequently I'm Snobby and you're Rummy because Bill and Sally wasn't good enough for our parents.

  51. RUMMY [with hauteur] I ain't ad the pleasure o being hintroduced to you, as I can remember.

  52. Rummy idea having to hail a craft of that sort at this time of the morning.

  53. Jolly rummy how these Boche birds get hold of these views," commented Fuller.

  54. Well, I have got a job of sorts, I'm a waiter at a rummy little place on Second Avenue.

  55. By the way, it's rummy how you run into people when you move about, isn't it?

  56. But what an extraordinarily rummy thing that I should have come to this place to deliver the goods just when you happened to be here.

  57. He looked a rummy little beggar, I can tell you.

  58. I picked up a rummy curio on the beach this go," said the captain.

  59. Rummy if the tunnel goes to the Red House.

  60. Rummy how often blue comes into business affairs, don't you think?

  61. The woman had given me some pang and fromarge, and a so of o--rummy lingo the French, ain't it?

  62. It'll be rummy to hear Kennedy lecture," said Harry, sitting beside Kenneth on the form.

  63. It's a rummy thing, but I had finished breakfast and gone out and got as far as the lift before I remembered what it was that I had meant to do to reward Jeeves for his really sporting behaviour in this matter of the chump Cyril.

  64. For instance, the dashed rummy case of dear old Archie.

  65. It must have been about a week after this rummy little episode that George Caffyn called me up and asked me if I would care to go and see a run-through of his show.

  66. Rummy the thing should be called 'Ask Dad,' when that's just what I'm not going to do.

  67. He curveted past me into the sitting-room, and when I got there after shutting the front door I found him reading Aunt Agatha's cable and giggling in a rummy sort of manner.

  68. But the rummy thing that night was that I showed it.

  69. That's where a number of chappies would slip up, and I'm pretty certain I should have slipped up myself, but for another singularly rummy occurrence.

  70. But what convinced me that I had emptied a flagon or so too many was a rather rummy thing that occurred later on.

  71. Well, as I was saying, on the night of the ball a most rummy thing happened.

  72. On that occasion a most rummy and extraordinary thing happened.

  73. Rummy old boys, those Apostles," began Dizzy in a vein of reminiscent anecdote, but Mr. Binney interrupted him.

  74. I was only going to say that it seems a rummy thing--however, perhaps I'd better not.

  75. A woman held that Simple Simon had a rummy hat on.

  76. A cold voice from a remote window, remarked, above the din, that whatever he'd done he'd got a rummy hat on.


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