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Example sentences for "spruced"

Lexicographically close words:
sprout; sprouted; sprouting; sprouts; spruce; spruces; sprue; spruit; spruits; sprung
  1. Jackwell, as I must always call him now, spruced himself up better than usual, and paid more attention to the ladies.

  2. Chairs were set out by the old mate and two harpooners who had come aft, and the cook spruced himself up to get us out a plum-duff for lunch.

  3. He was all spruced up, and as nervous and excited as a schoolboy.

  4. He walked in one evening at dusk, but at first sight I didn't know him he was so spruced and barbered up.

  5. I spruced up to do de honors ob de 'casion.

  6. The following Sunday, then, spruced up in his best-what could have possessed the haberdasher to induce him to buy a pair of red dog-skin gloves?

  7. In the twinkling of an eye the human rag called Gustave was lifted into a chair, clothed in his topcoat and hat, dressed and spruced up, pushed down the spiral staircase, and landed in a cab.

  8. By that time he was sufficiently awake to find his key and open the trunk, after which he donned fresh underwear and his second-best suit of blue serge, spruced himself up and thought of supper.

  9. Zebedee met us at the station in Richmond with the faithful Henry Ford, quite spruced up (I mean Henry) with a new coat of paint, put on while the family was at the beach.

  10. Mr. Gordon was very much spruced up and did not look nearly so old and tired as he had in the morning.

  11. While the travellers spruced themselves up in different bedrooms, Tommy chattered through one pair of double doors ajar, and Nick through the other, and Musa strummed with many mistakes on an antique Pleyel piano.

  12. That's where we shall take you to dine, after you've spruced yourselves up.

  13. I meant to be all spruced up and receive you in state at the hotel.


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