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Example sentences for "saucily"

Lexicographically close words:
saucerful; saucers; sauces; saucia; sauciest; sauciness; saucy; saue; saued; sauerkraut
  1. To see Christie Johnstone do the double-shuffle with her arms so saucily akimbo, and her quick elastic foot at an angle of forty-five, was a treat.

  2. And there she perched saucily and munched and sucked at grape after grape before his very eyes.

  3. He did it, too, saucily enough, gobbling a bite here and a bite there, looking back over his shoulder the while at the man with the gun.

  4. She dimpled to his remarks, however, and as she bade him good-by at the door she smiled saucily into his eyes.

  5. Bobby's heels were sticking up and he peered saucily through his feet at the astonished company.

  6. He quailed not before it, but saucily met it, And as saucily said, "Don't you wish you may get it?

  7. Here was Pickerel Pond, the scene of many miraculous draughts, and now I crossed Peach brook which babbled along under the road just as saucily and untiringly as if it had slept all these years and was just awaking to fresh life.

  8. The lad saucily saluted, and the multitude, suddenly impartial, pelted them both with peanuts.

  9. The train runs saucily along under beetling crags, whence the gods of the hills may well look down in wonder and displeasure on this noisy invasion of their solitude.

  10. He would not eat with us, but was chatty and in goodhumour, and as usual, when in spirits, saucily sarcastic.

  11. The more reason I should,' said Angela, laughing saucily in his face, though both spoke under their breath.

  12. Thee is routed, Robert," cried Sally saucily as he left them.

  13. A gauze cap with wings and streamers perched saucily upon her dark locks which were simply drawn back from her low, broad forehead, braided with a ribbon, and powdered but little.

  14. Dus smiled, a little saucily I thought--but saucily or not, that smile made her look extremely lovely.

  15. Where was the smile that was wont to twinkle in his merry eye like the sparkle of a diamond and to play saucily about his lips--where the unwrinkled serenity of his brow and the defiantly audacious demeanor of his whole handsome person?

  16. Other chroniclers declared that Geoffrey lied saucily and shamelessly, but his book became extremely popular.

  17. In a moment, if we watched, we would see his sharp eyes levelled on us through the grass at the mouth of his burrow, or perhaps he would appear from another exit and send forth his shrill challenge more saucily than ever.

  18. The prairie now was very brown and bare, and only the more hardy gophers remained about to whistle saucily at our carry-all lumbering by.

  19. And she looked up saucily into the kind old face bending over her.

  20. Though this knave came something saucily into the world before he was sent for, yet was his mother fair, there was good sport at his making, and the whoreson must be acknowledged.

  21. When he grew angry, she laughed, and saucily held up her lips for a kiss.

  22. I know who the lady is," answered Yolanda, tossing her head saucily and speaking with a dash of irritation in her voice.


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