Sentence examples for be proper at from inspiring English sources

Perhaps a good application of water-soluble fertilizer would be proper at the start of its indoor life, but after that something akin to neglect is best.

By D. Hoyle and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, July 26 , 1941P. 7 The editors of the "Bride's Magazine" have just received a letter from a lady who wanted to know if it would be proper, at her daughter's wedding, to have the flower girls carry little signs reading: "God Bless America".

Service is casually friendly, as is proper at a beach resort, yet professional.

He added, "I am confident that my fund-raising efforts were proper at all times".

A rcd P(. | A)(w) on B given A, is proper at w, if P(. | A)(w) = 1, whenever w ∈ A ∈ A. P(. | A)(w) is improper otherwise.

So my coach was going mental at me and I was proper shouting at him: "This is not my fault!" I was so stressed out.

This is proper dinner at the end of a long day.

"Certainly what you need are proper men at this club and we've got a few already.

None of this five-or-nine-thirty nonsense; these are proper dinners, starting at seven-thirty and eight o'clock.

"What we have in this country is proper bodies to look at competition, plurality, fitness and properness.

Because it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.