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Sentence Examples
| It's wonderful, the amount of litter they manage to accumulate in these frowsy little shops where the whole stock is worth about fifty quid. |
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| Two rather frowsy saloon girls, adorned with feathers and too much paint, were leaning against the bar, half-asleep. |
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| But only she can provide the meaningful interruption into the frowsy narrative that has built around her. |
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| I don't know if dog and cat diabetes are handled similarly but one of my cats was losing weight, his coat was frowsy and he drank a lot of water and urinated a lot at once. |
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| Undisclosed sadness hangs heavy in the frowsy marsh and in the vines on the trees. |
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| They were not much to look at-tanned, tattered, inhabited, maybe, but under their frowsy gaberdines was a complete mail of money belts, and they were just as good as gold. |
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| Diaz is frowsy, whiny and has no chemistry with any other character. |
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| Our frowsy English teacher who had invited Crockett to speak assigned each of us to read a different Dylan Thomas poem, and we each presented our poem to the class, and that was it for our education in poetry. |
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| As Ruehl wittily plays her, with frowsy black bangs and lips set in a sardonic straight line, Eva is a canny monster, a funny, selfish force of nature. |
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| Verl treasured a photograph showing her with the deed, standing in front of her neat clapboard house, a frowsy white dog leaning against her checkered skirt. |
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| The McCains' ten homes and thirteen cars notwithstanding, everything to do with the McCain campaign has the frowsy feeling of a town next to a military base. |
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| Hammons is a connoisseur of the frowsy and the ad hoc. |
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| He had seen it lying in the window of a frowsy little junk-shop in a slummy quarter of the town and had been stricken immediately by an overwhelming desire to possess it. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| He had a most amiable feeling towards it, were it ever so frowsy and undersized and sallow. |
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| For the most part they were heavy, frowsy creatures, slatternly and uncouth. |
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| Wade was not in a frame of mind to see any picturesqueness in that frowsy crowd. |
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| The dull, black, frowsy outline of the valance above me was within an inch of being parallel with his waist. |
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| Presently, Annie, the laundress, put her frowsy head in at the door. |
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| I always did think those frowsy, romantic, unwashed peasant girls I had read so much about in poetry were a glaring fraud. |
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| The young man lifted it, placed it over the frowsy face and moved one of the grotesquely relaxed limbs into a more comfortable position. |
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| There rose into view the frowsy head and fat face of Jack's wife. |
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| And what a sea of information is therein under that frowsy dome. |
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| She indicated Grandmother by an inclination of her frowsy head. |
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| A submissive orchestra dictated to by a spectacled man with frowsy hair and a dress suit, industriously followed the bobs of his head and the waves of his baton. |
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