Sentence examples for like pappy from inspiring English sources

Determined not to follow in his father's footsteps, Mr. Dubus recalled: "I said I was going to be a pipe fitter like Pappy, my grandfather.

Just like Pappy owners who boast about the hunt, Pokémon Go players fit into a hierarchy based on the characters they've collected.

But now, Mock the Week and Michael McIntyre's Roadshow are populated by the solo talents, while sketch troupes like Pappy's are left in Dick and Dom's care.

Another night, she said, he wondered, "Do you know why I want to be president of the United States?" "I was like no, Pappy, why, I know why, but I like to hear those answers," Ms. Kerry recalled, adding that this time he said it was to pacify the Middle East.

Twenty years after first holding the governorship, Chandler again entered the gubernatorial race in 1955 using the slogan "Be like your Pappy and vote for Happy".

Then I notice the low ledge that runs along the outside of the building where small, jagged rocks anchor hundreds of calling cards lined up like train cars: Pappy's Kettle Corn; a medical diagnostic service; the Dallas Museum of Art.

Everyone calls me pappy and I like that.

For instance: Pappy, as Ford liked to be called on the set, beat his son with a razor strop and subsequently disinherited him, while flagrantly ignoring his doting daughter when she failed to make friends or succeed in school.

He's like a rocking-chair pappy, and his band of friends -- men who have undergone female-to-male procedures -- take to him as if he were a corncob paterfamilias; they call him "Daddy Robert".

"Would anyone like the rest of my Pappy?" I asked, referring to the Pappy Van Winkle Buffalo Trace, which had been passed alongside the George Stagg Bourbon.

Clark, along with Matthew Crosby and Tom Parry, is one-third of comedy trio Pappy's (formerly known as Pappy's Fun Club).