PRIM in a Sentence

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22 example sentences for PRIM, such as:

1. You can't tell that joke to her she's much too prim and proper.
2. We tend to imagine that the Victorians were very prim and proper.
3. I'll be as prim as I can and not get into any scrapes, if I can help it.
4. I've played the part of a prim young lady on the stage, and I'll try it off.
5. It was a strange conjunction — the prim serious young Queen and the elderly, cynical Whig.

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 Meanings and Examples of PRIM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
prim
 a.  very precise and formal; exceedingly proper
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  As for you, Amy," continued Meg, "you are altogether too particular and prim.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ONE
2  I'll be as prim as I can and not get into any scrapes, if I can help it.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THREE
3  And he looked up and laughed outright, for Jo's prim manner was rather funny when he remembered how they had chatted about cricket when he brought the cat home.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THREE
4  But Aunt March had not this gift, and she worried Amy very much with her rules and orders, her prim ways, and long, prosy talks.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER NINETEEN
5  I've played the part of a prim young lady on the stage, and I'll try it off.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
6  We both bowed, and then we laughed, for the prim introduction and the blunt addition were rather a comical contrast.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
7  It was a prim, virginal little room and it lay still and warm in the slanting rays of the four-o'clock sun.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  Beyond him, in the hallway and the living-room, sitting in a vast prim circle as though they were attending a funeral, she saw the guests.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  It was not a brutal countenance, but it was prim, hard, and stern, with a firm-set, thin-lipped mouth, and a coldly intolerant eye.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets
10  It was a very long street of two-story brick houses, neat and prim, with whitened stone steps and little groups of aproned women gossiping at the doors.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
11  Dunyasha, a girl very prim in the master's house, and a romp outside the gates, only giggled in answer.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  She leaned against her mother and burst into such a loud, ringing fit of laughter that even the prim visitor could not help joining in.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI
13  Jo understood why Laurie 'primmed up his mouth' when speaking of Kate, for that young lady had a standoff-don't-touch-me air, which contrasted strongly with the free and easy demeanor of the other girls.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
14  Jo stood aloof, meanwhile, trying to harden her heart against him, and succeeding only in primming up her face into an expression of entire disapprobation.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
15  Oh, it wasn't fair that she should have to sit here primly and be the acme of widowed dignity and propriety when she was only seventeen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence:
1  We tend to imagine that the Victorians were very prim and proper.
2  It was a strange conjunction — the prim serious young Queen and the elderly, cynical Whig.
3  You can't tell that joke to her she's much too prim and proper.
4  Many people commented on the contrast between the prim attire of the young lady and the inappropriate clothing worn by her escort.