Sentence examples for proper present from inspiring English sources

One doesn't like to seem ungrateful, but it would be nice occasionally to get a proper present.

Using money she's got from selling her body, she buys him the only proper present he's ever had, a basketball, which very soon deflates along with their sad hopes.

The thing about gift-giving at Christmastime is that the proper present is supposed to make the recipient better.

This idealization of imperfect experiments remains an essential scientific process, though nowadays it is considered proper to present (or at least have available for scrutiny) the primary observations, so that others may judge independently whether they are prepared to accept the author's conclusion as to what would have been observed in an ideally conducted experiment.

"I couldn't afford to buy my son a proper birthday present this year," she said.

The influence of surfactants on the formation of dendrites has been investigated in detail and it is found that surfactant with a proper concentration present in the reaction system is the key factor for the formation of dendritic nanostructures.

Nothing could tempt the Duke from his ground till the proper moment presented itself.

The paper also reported: Nothing could tempt the Duke from his ground till the proper moment presented itself.

Particularly in the last case, the temptation may be to press ahead with the research without proper consent, presenting it as "frontier" treatment.

From rural Alberta to Burlington, Ontario, here's ten early Canadian electronic records ranging from the mid 1970s to the late 1980s that we think deserve proper reissues, presented chronologically.

We also present proper approximation of phase fluxes in the mixed finite element method.