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Example sentences for "smartened"

Lexicographically close words:
smalt; smart; smarte; smarted; smarten; smartening; smarter; smartest; smarting; smartish
  1. Terry had almost bitten off my head when I had innocently proposed to have his car smartened up to suit the taste of the Countess; but, without saying a word to me, he had been at work improving its appearance.

  2. You made her over to me before witnesses, and I think I shall have her smartened up with a bit of red paint and a crest.

  3. The smartened tailor is smiling on his wife and declaring: 'O thou wert born to please me, my life, my only dear!

  4. The inn here has been smartened and enlarged of late years, a hint how strangers appreciate the charms of a seclusion that begins to be broken in on by building.

  5. It was hard to picture that this once had been a cozy, comfortable room, clean and tidy, smartened with pictures and ornaments upon the walls and with curtains at the casement openings, which now gaped so emptily.

  6. The wind did hold, as it proved; and long before the young ladies made their appearance Big Archie and his assistant had the lugsail hoisted and the cumbrous craft smartened up as much as might be.

  7. Oh, I tell you we will have Lochgarra smartened up in course of time, and Minard and Cruagan too.

  8. I suppose that there are some children, of a sullen and lymphatic temperament, who are smartened up and made more wide-awake by a whipping.

  9. By a quarter to ten o'clock we four were at the prison gates, where Jimmy Virtue was waiting for us; he had smartened himself up for the occasion, but his face looked worn and aged.


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