PROPRIETY in a Sentence

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53 example sentences for PROPRIETY, such as:

1. We hesitated at the propriety of the method.
2. Having or exhibiting no sense of propriety or decency.
3. Well, then Uncle and Aunt were there to play propriety.
4. Brooke will go to keep us boys steady, and Kate Vaughn will play propriety for the girls.
5. It was evident that they debated on the propriety of some measure, that nearly concerned the welfare of the travelers.

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 Meanings and Examples of PROPRIETY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
propriety
 n.  fitness; correct conduct; quality of being proper; appropriateness
Classic Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1  Ellen ignored all things contrary to her ideas of propriety and tried to teach Scarlett to do the same, but with poor success.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  The little presents he brought her from Nassau, little oddments that a lady could accept with propriety, were what mattered most to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  Fields of springing wheat drew her from the straight propriety of the railroad and she crawled through the rusty barbed-wire fence.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  In ready-made clothes and ready-made high-school phrases they sank into propriety, and the sound American customs had absorbed without one trace of pollution another alien invasion.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
6  If you have never seen that sight, then suspend your decision about the propriety of devil-worship, and the expediency of conciliating the devil.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
7  It was evident that they debated on the propriety of some measure, that nearly concerned the welfare of the travelers.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
8  David had contended, and the novelty of the circumstance held him silent, in deliberation on the propriety of the unusual occurrence.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
9  During the utterance of this extraordinary address, the companions of the speaker were as grave and as attentive to his language as though they were all equally impressed with its propriety.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
10  Just a moment previous to the scuffle with Henry, Mr. Hamilton suggested the propriety of making a search for the protections which he had understood Frederick had written for himself and the rest.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
11  In short, Topsy soon made the household understand the propriety of letting her alone; and she was let alone, accordingly.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
12  He was called before the curtain, and with great propriety appeared, leading Hagar, whose singing was considered more wonderful than all the rest of the performance put together.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWO
13  Brooke will go to keep us boys steady, and Kate Vaughn will play propriety for the girls.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
14  Well, then Uncle and Aunt were there to play propriety.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
15  To this Penelope said, "My dear sir, of all the guests who ever yet came to my house there never was one who spoke in all things with such admirable propriety as you do."
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XIX
Example Sentence:
1  Miss Manners counsels her readers so that they may behave with due propriety in any social situation and not embarrass themselves.
2  Having or exhibiting no sense of propriety or decency.
3  Miss Temple had always something of serenity in her air, of state in her mien, of refined propriety in her language, which precluded deviation into the ardent, the excited, and the eager.
4  We hesitated at the propriety of the method.