Sentence examples for That's quaint from inspiring English sources

"People call it the gingerbread house," says Perry, "but there's not a lot of it that's quaint".

If that's quaint, we're quaint still.

Cleaning Up the Pastures "Cow pie" is a quaint term, to be sure, but there is precious little else that is quaint about cow manure.

And as in the German capital, there is very little that is quaint about Belgrade, which has not had the face-lift that many European capitals have.

Foreign readers of Indian novels are searching for themselves in stories set in a world that is quaint, but not incomprehensible.

Christmas concerts these days lean heavily on Renaissance and Baroque works, probably as a way of creating an atmosphere that is quaint and warmly inviting.

A short walk uptown from this preserved district, new hotels and spiffy shopping areas have sprung up on streets that were quaint but slightly seedy when I first attended the festivals in the early 1980s.

It is treated as an abstract subject that deals with, for example, when "fish flopped on land," something that was quaint or, worse, optional and largely "an irrelevant part of biology".

He or she has appropriated the expensive tokens and ways of life that are quaint, special snowflake-y and individualized in all its nonchalance.

"Our streets are unique because we abut commercial property". But, she added, "this is a very historic neighborhood with streets that are quaint and charming". The love-hate battle over development that is playing out in neighborhoods all over the Southland and elsewhere is amplified here.

Here among the ice-cream parlors, candle shops and heaps of antiques, public toilets have emerged as a threat to all that is quaint.