Sentence examples for posey from inspiring English sources

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posey

adjective

Pretentious

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Nosegay, also called tussie-mussie, or posey, small, hand-held bouquet popular in mid - 19th-centuryVictorian England as an accessory carried by fashionable ladies.

Perhaps, then, it's not the best opening conversational gambit to light-heartedly say: "So where have you been these past years?" Posey, dressed in a striped blouse, nude heels and a purple skirt, gives  me the eye.

Every morning, Mr. William Dietrich gives every man on the 8 11 from Bloomfield a posey for his buttonhole.

Children who stumble on an adult's gun collection would have extra protection, preventing what happened to Kamarion Posey, a four-year old who accidentally shot himself in the head in Louisville, Kentucky, who died on Friday.

But this didn't stop her, with Posey graduating to win the role of Tess in CBS's soap As the World Turns.

But the big dramatic roles that an actress like Posey was more than equipped to handle just didn't come.

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In some way it strikes me as quite a brave deed - surely the girls know they are throwing themselves like little posey-little-lambs into the jaws of the trolling community?

She had told him, then, that she was in love with a young girl named Posey Pendergast.

The party is at the ostentatious beach house of a rich old woman named Posey Pendergast.

Rep Bill Posey, REpublican of Florida, uses one of them to re-ask the Bachmann question about auditing the Fed.

Although their offence was led by Buster Posey, a leading candidate for the National League's (NL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) award, his top sidekick was Melky Cabrera, an outfielder.

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