PROPER in a Sentence

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For PROPER, below is one of 290 sentences:
Her sister, a busy proper advisory soul, older than herself, had become a stranger to her even when they lived in the same house.

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 Meanings and Examples of PROPER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
proper
 a.  belonging to one; one's own; individual; belonging to natural or essential constitution; peculiar; not common; particular
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "Ah-ah-hum," said Gerald, suddenly and guiltily aware that the conversation, a most interesting and entirely proper one to him, would seem quite otherwise to Ellen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Charles was not excited over the prospect of marrying her, for she stirred in him none of the emotions of wild romance that his beloved books had assured him were proper for a lover.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  And, of course, you always blushed on such occasions, otherwise they would pinch you with more pleasure than was proper and then tell their sons that you were fast.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  Useless for the patriotic Mrs. Merriwether to upbraid her daughter and point out that homespun was the proper bridal attire for a Confederate bride.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  Ain never seed a proper cah'ige in dere lives.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
6  I feared that 'visiting the sick and the imprisoned' was not your proper role.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  You are just putting on this indignant front because you think it's proper and respectable.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  The matter would be discussed at dinner tables for weeks and the opinion of the County would be that the O'Hara girls had not shown proper respect for their father.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
9  Scarlett would have suffered agonies of humiliation at having friends find her without draperies and carpets and cushions and the proper number of chairs and teacups and spoons.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
10  She'd just have to see to it that the convicts got their proper rations in the future.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
11  Things are so different during the war and nice people associated with many men who were not quite-- It was all for the Cause and very proper, too.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
12  She invited Mrs. Meade and Mrs. Whiting who she knew disliked her and who she knew would be embarrassed because they did not have the proper clothes to wear to so elegant a function.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
13  Rhett lent an attentive ear to this remark, as he did to all Mammy's remarks about the proper raising of little girls.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
14  It was Rhett--Rhett who had strong arms to hold her, a broad chest to pillow her tired head, jeering laughter to pull her affairs into proper perspective.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
15  Her sister, a busy proper advisory soul, older than herself, had become a stranger to her even when they lived in the same house.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (80 in 6 pages)
16  He gave us a proper example.
17  The proper function of man is to live,but not to exist.
18  An investigation uncovered mismanagement and a lack of proper financial controls.
19  Please follow the proper procedures for dealing with complaints.
20  To him that does everything in its proper time, one day is worth three.
21  We tend to imagine that the Victorians were very prim and proper.
22  A text for students devoted seven pages to the use of a capital letter to indicate a proper noun.
23  The teapot has lost its proper lid but this one will do instead.
24  So far as I am aware, no proper investigation has ever been carried out into the subject.
25  It seemed proper to pay tribute to her in this way.
26  It has recently come to my attention that some of the younger boys are not using the toilets for the proper purpose.
27  He's a real deadbeat who's never had a proper job.
28  You can't tell that joke to her she's much too prim and proper.
29  Rest and proper nourishment should facilitate the patient's recovery.
30  Make sure that the furniture is aligned in a proper fashion with a set pattern.