Sentence examples for pappy from inspiring English sources

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pappy

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Yesterday, a satirical website, The Poke, autotuned the Lib Dem leader's voice to turn his mea culpa about breaking his pledge on tuition fees into a pappy pop song, and it came over surprisingly well.

Sometimes with a big fish like a halibut, it gets fatty and pappy, but skrei doesn't".

If you cook any crab at the end of their season, the meat will be quite pappy and wet.

The "steer" chooses the victim, who is referred to generically as the "mark," the "vic," or the "chump," but can also be categorized into various subspecies, among them "Mr. Bates" (businessman) and "pappy" (senior citizen).

We think of his hit "White Lightning," which was all about him and his pappy making moonshine and trying to outsmart revenoors looking for them.

The weather today is not the weather of my pappy or grandpappy.' " FirstFuel Software is another company using computers to cope with climate change.

During the ceremony, he recounted what President Lyndon B. Johnson said in dedicating a building in Washington when Mr. Zuccotti was a special assistant at the Department of Housing and Urban Development: "My pappy would have enjoyed it and my mammy would have believed it".

Howard, Bentley and Robert Redford (who gives a surprisingly affecting turn as an old-timer who saw the dragon years ago, even though nobody believed him) are all attuned to the film's needs: namely that you don't have to make this kind of thing too pappy or loopy to hold a younger audience's interest.

Not to say that there is anything wrong with a braeburn or a granny smith (I draw the line at that pappy staple of the packed lunch, the golden – and so-called – delicious), but it is a little like comparing a hamburger and an 180-day dry-aged steak, or asti spumante and vintage champagne.

He rates O Brother Where Art Thou? as his favourite movie and quotes Pappy O'Daniel with glee ("Just go and write my concession speech now!").

No huge, affected ornamental "farmhouse" wedges, please; no rolls; no crackers; no (for the love of god) pitta pockets; and – pub chefs – no last-minute microwaving of baguettes so they come out all pappy and steaming.

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