Sentence examples for sissies from inspiring English sources

"sissies" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a person regarded as effeminate or cowardly. Example sentence: "My brother and I used to call each other sissies when we were young."

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sissies

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Plural of sissy

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"New musicals are hard – they're not for sissies," said Ashford.

"Africa is not really for sissies," says Neville Desselss, its manager, helpfully.Neither company pays its staff a danger bonus.

ART is for weeds and sissies whose mater hav said Take care of my dear little Cedric, he is delicate you kno and cannot stand a foopball to the head.

Japan's sissies are tougher than they look.

Its winner was the incumbent, Leonid Chernovetsky, nicknamed "Cosmos" for his spaced-out and erratic behaviour and his allegiance to a local sect, the Embassy of God, which professes that "wealth is not for sissies".

Buy from Amazon.co.ukTHE evidence is a bit thin, but it seems that Adolf Hitler was not a cricket-lover; apparently, he thought batsmen who wore pads were sissies.

He spoke of how it angered him that football is seen as a sport where "fighting, passion and the will to win are intrinsically linked", compared to an idea that "gays are sissies".

Nobody knows if Hattie Ambush asked the four "sissies" for their daily subs when they climbed the steps and approached her position at the 5th Street Gym's entrance.

Zuckerberg knows fashion is for sissies Fashion footnote: men used to know better than to act like a bunch of dogs in a sack baying at the Best of Breed, but the desiccated ninnies over at GQ magazine have just named Mark Zuckerberg the worst-dressed man of the moment.

"How in God's name can you 'he men' baseball players - known for your physical prowess - stand by like a bunch of sissies in the face of what God calls an 'abomination,'" the group posted online, referring to Canada's same-sex marriage laws.

"I ain't having no picture taken with no sissies," Liston had snarled.

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