Sentence examples for sonny from inspiring English sources
The word 'sonny' is correct and usable in written English, but it is typically more of a colloquial or informal term
It can be used as a term of endearment or as a way to address a young person, especially a boy or young man. For example: "Hey there, sonny, can I help you with anything?" "I'm so proud of you, sonny, for graduating top of your class."
noun
A familiar form of address for a boy
The obvious reply for Darling would have been along the lines of: while you've been watching I've been doing it, sonny.
Dawn seems to have broken over me like a cold sweat and as I lie listening to the hammering rain, I can hear the voice of Private Frazer from Dad's Army echoing in my head: "You're doomed, sonny!" And then someone else's, it might be my wife's: "You're mad.
And so on.Now, when I was comin' up, sonny, in a not entirely lily-white neighbourhood in Washington, DC, we didn't talk much about racism.
SONNY PRIEST, a brewer on the rocky isle of Unst, high in the North Sea, says he knows what Scottish independence would mean: higher taxes and more government meddling.
SONNY O'NEAL is a worried man in what sounds like a nice job.
The American customs people looked into his marketing methods but could find nothing to pin on him.Bang, bang, you're deadWhat do you want to be when you grow up, sonny?
Mr Morita combined the Latin word for sound, sonus, with the English expression "sonny-boy" to give an impression of a company that was full of energy and youthful exuberance.
His ample dimples undisguised by a five-o'clock shadow Sonny Crockett could envy.
Muhammad Ali, in the days when he was Cassius Clay, beat the heavier, supposedly invincible Sonny Liston (and subsequently a lot of other bigger opponents) because he could "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee".
Mr Perdue recalls "pickin' watermelons" with his cousin Sonny Perdue (a former governor).
But he is not exactly an outsider: his cousin, Sonny Perdue, was Georgia's previous governor.Mr Kingston has run a bare-knuckle campaign, accusing his opponent of destroying jobs, scrounging federal dollars and favouring tax hikes, and generally trying to make the Perdue family sound like the Georgia Borgias.
