Sentence examples for spiffy from inspiring English sources

It was "like a spiffy midsized town in Iran", with parks, offices and buildings but no children.

It is also something of a puzzle: highway bills normally sail through Congress, since no one wants to antagonise drivers, and most members are eager to take credit for wider interstate roads and spiffy new bridges in their districts.The crux of the problem, as always, is money, or rather the lack of it.

It is the same with the pointless roadworks that disrupt my bicycle ride to work (they have been busy installing spiffy new traffic lights to replace old ones that worked fine).

Speaking at his country's spiffy new EU summit site (a modernist box of glass and wood in the grounds of a castle outside Ljubljana), Mr Rupel's candour suggests his country's presidency might, at the least, be rather interesting.

Regulars here include America's leading house rocker, Junior Brown, who is recognisable for his ten-gallon hat and spiffy retro Fifties shirts, and yet another epic hometown guitarist, Jimmie Ray Vaughn.The richest vein of Lonestar music, however, remains that of the lyrical singer-songwriter.

Ultra-expensive infrastructure projects such as a spiffy metro and gigantic new airport now look like wise investments, not hubris.

Even if the desired number of vehicles doesn't rise, people will start replacing vehicles that wear out (use), rust away (decay), or just are so much worse than newer models that they're worth replacing to get the spiffy new features (obsolescence).

A live rock band played spiffy renditions of "Blue Suede Shoes" and other 1950s classics; between numbers, six panellists sang the praises of competition and fielded questions from 100-odd onlookers about such issues as transport prices.