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Example sentences for "vamp"

Lexicographically close words:
valved; valves; valvular; valy; vamos; vampire; vampires; vampirism; vamps; vampyre
  1. Your critic states, to begin with, that I make desperate attempts to "vamp up" a moral in my story.

  2. Turn and work across top of vamp with a double in each stitch.

  3. Chain 1, a double in each double, narrowing at middle of vamp and on the sides.

  4. Repeat 6th and 7th rows until you have 25 ribs, or the vamp is as deep as desired.

  5. Oh, that talkative but treacherous tout at Vamp Villa!

  6. If you honour my verses by setting the air to them, I will vamp up the old song, and make it English enough to be understood.

  7. Henshaw wants you for some baby-vamp stuff in the cabaret scene and in the gambling hell.

  8. Here I got to be a baby-vamp when I'd rather be simple little Madelon, beloved by all in the village.

  9. They've been trained to know me as a vamp, and a vamp I remain.

  10. No Millard story is ever complete without a vamp and Marilyn's been eating them up.

  11. Ain't I taken my paralyzed oath that this here picture should make all the other vamp pictures which ever were taken look like pikers?

  12. Where Mr. Lobel excelled was in the vamp stuff.

  13. Pape nodded, his mental eye upon the good and bad in this rival to whom the baby vamp in the cast had erroneously assigned the successful suitor role.

  14. Irene, continuing to baby-vamp him, waved him into the chair beside that into which she had sunk.

  15. And the lady vamp with the long string of beads danglin' from her neck didn't seem to think it odd for us to be interested in checked ginghams.

  16. As a matter of fact, I've always had Mirabelle sized up as a near-vamp who had worked up the act to boost sales and cinch her job.

  17. At which follows a discussion on dopes, ending by Lena's promising never to vamp my dope if I won't vamp hers.

  18. Who wants to pick up with anyone they can vamp in the Subway?

  19. To boil or cook again; hence, to make over; to vamp up; to reconstruct.

  20. To vamp again; hence, topatch up; to reconstruct.

  21. Vamp is persuaded to step to a corner of the store and answer questions, because she mistook woman for private store detective.

  22. Reporter now ill at ease and lets vamp go.

  23. Lois Miller was not a vamp by choice but by force of circumstances.

  24. At counter young vamp who stood near Janet Schuyler, leaves hurriedly and is about to make for the door when a bright-looking young woman placed detaining hand upon her arm.

  25. Vamp angry, threatens the law if she is detained.

  26. In fact, the vamp was so full of mischief while playing the heart-stirring drama of her life when she was hungry and without a home, that the "pathos" acted upon the audience as if it had been comedy.

  27. To vamp again; hence, to patch up; to reconstruct.

  28. It's entertainin' just to sit on the side lines and watch her pull this baby-vamp act of hers and then see the victims squirm.

  29. Defn: To vamp again; hence, topatch up; to reconstruct.

  30. Defn: To boil or cook again; hence, to make over; to vamp up; to reconstruct.

  31. One hated him because he took the Vamp home, and one admired him because he had succeeded where everybody else had failed.

  32. From different sections of the cafe men rose, and after making their apologies to the other guests, walked up to where the Vamp was waiting for some one to help her take off her coat.

  33. It was inconceivable that the Vamp should not be out every evening!

  34. They called her the Vampire, or Vamp for short.

  35. Nobody there to-night," it simply meant that the Vamp was not there.

  36. Measure five inches above the knee down to the vamp of the shoe for the length of the front part of the legging.

  37. Sew vamp up the center by catching corresponding loops together.

  38. Join the back of the heel and sew to the soles before closing the vamp in front.

  39. The first row on the vamp (B, of illustration) is made one inch higher than the side.

  40. A vamp may be a far more socially possible person that that, in fact any attractive woman who comports herself toward another woman's man consistently with the common amenities of civilized intercourse.

  41. A vamp no longer means of necessity a vampire, a scarlet-mouthed seductress of strong men's souls.

  42. The vamp and quarters as they were pasted, Are seen now in their place; The vamp extending above the clamps, With the quarters easy to trace.

  43. The centre mark on the vamp we'll use, To get the quarters placed best, By putting the vamp upon the two, One-half inch above to rest.

  44. Did the vapid little guest and the Freshman Vamp have anything to do with it?

  45. Allison had taken the car, so there was nothing left for Clive to do but finish his shortcake and think up some form of amusement with the Freshman vamp for the afternoon.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vamp" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adventuress; attract; beguile; bewitch; cadenza; captivate; captive; catch; charm; charmer; conquest; coquette; courtesan; date; descant; enchant; enchanter; enchantress; endear; enrapture; enthrall; entrance; extemporize; fake; fascinate; fireman; fix; flirt; flourish; freshen; furbish; honey; houri; hypnotize; impromptu; improvisation; improvise; infatuate; interpolation; intrigue; introduction; lick; mend; mesmerize; odalisque; overture; patch; prelude; renovate; repair; retouch; revive; right; seduce; seducer; shine; siren; spell; steady; strumpet; sweetheart; tantalize; teaser; tempt; tempter; temptress; transport; vamp; vampire; voluntary; whore; witch