DANDY in a Sentence

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23 example sentences for DANDY, such as:

1. That's certainly a dandy fence.
2. Gosh, these cigarettes are dandy.
3. Then we'll have a dandy long trip.
4. This dandy was smoking, for he was decidedly fashionable.
5. The dandy took advantage of the incident to make his escape.

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 Meanings and Examples of DANDY
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dandy
 n.  man who affects extreme elegance in clothes and manners; something very good or agreeable
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  And Axel Egge's, like home, lots of Swedes and Norskes in there, and a card of dandy buttons, like rubies.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  Gosh, these cigarettes are dandy.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  Myrtle Cass was saying you got up a dramatic club and gave a dandy play.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
4  Then we'll have a dandy long trip.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
5  That's certainly a dandy fence.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  Now when a country dandy like this takes it into his head to make a distinguished reputation, and joins the great whale-fishery, you should see the comical things he does upon reaching the seaport.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6. The Street.
7  The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of mustaches.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XII—M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY
8  This dandy was smoking, for he was decidedly fashionable.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XII—M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY
9  The dandy took advantage of the incident to make his escape.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XII—M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY
10  Another opportunity of laying hands on that "devil's dandy" must be waited for.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATIO...
11  One of his guns was swung over his shoulder, Gaetano had the other, and a sailor held his rifle; his dress, half artist, half dandy, did not excite any suspicion, and, consequently, no disquietude.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor.
12  The count appeared, dressed with the greatest simplicity, but the most fastidious dandy could have found nothing to cavil at in his toilet.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 40. The Breakfast.
13  I thought you'd got over the dandy period, but every now and then it breaks out in a new spot.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
14  You are not a dandy, thank Heaven, so I'm glad to see there are no diamonds or big seal rings on it, only the little old one Jo gave you so long ago.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
15  In short, it was a costume worthy of a Lord Chamberlain or the species of dandy who shrinks from swearing in the Russian language, but amply relieves his feelings in the language of France.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  It was Susan Sontag, who said that being a dandy was a way of being an individual in an age of mass culture.
2  You could not now traverse the gallery, once so hushed, nor enter the front chambers, once so tenantless, without encountering a smart lady's-maid or a dandy valet.