Sentence examples for spiffs from inspiring English sources

Still, the enthusiasm it represents offers me hope that my niece will one day read those tattered books — and all the Spaceman Spiffs and Tracer Bullets and cardboard boxes they contain — to her grandchildren.

The prices can be on the high side for vintagewear, but the condition of what is for sale is reliably pristine, thanks in part to a staff seamstress who spiffs up any buttons or hems that need mending.

Plus, the singer-songwriter Angel Olsen and Kelefa Sanneh listen to a track from Olsen's latest album, "My Woman"; a curator at the American Museum of Natural History spiffs up a dead bee; the actor Reed Birney reads Donald Barthelme's classic short story "The School"; and Joshua Rothman investigates our obsession with travelling to Mars.

Its former space is occupied temporarily by Cartier while it spiffs up its longtime home, three blocks south at 52nd Street.

Murdoch pursued Dow Jones and the Journal relentlessly, despite (as I saw in the newsroom at the time) the open opposition of its staff in 2007, then spiffed up the paper with significant investments once his $5bn bid succeeded... only to shuffle it off when advisers told him that print was dragging down the value of the Fox broadcasting business.

Fred Niblo's silent version is spiffing entertainment without a thought in its head; William Wyler's remake is just a pious slog up to the admittedly exciting chariot race (which Wyler did not shoot anyway).

Councils can do a good deal to spiff up town centres.

But his friends are now clearly trying to spiff up his legacy.

Club Med has shut its cheapest sites and spiffed up its properties.

In Pakistan the Indians had a jolly spiffing tour Showing cricket could bring friendship to old enemies next door.

In particular, Mr Balls, who is currently shadow schools secretary, has launched ferocious attacks on the Coalition's decision to halt a large and bureaucratic programme for building new schools and spiffing up old ones.Faced with this stark dispute in the party he now leads, Mr Miliband told both sides they were right.