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Example sentences for "blowsy"

Lexicographically close words:
blowne; blowout; blowpipe; blowpipes; blows; blowy; blubber; blubbered; blubbering; blubbery
  1. Pah, some blowsy paramour of the knave Boyce.

  2. There was a skull in the place of honour on the walls, flanked by two Venetian pictures of the Virgin, and faced by a blowsy Bacchus and Ariadne from Flanders.

  3. Little Blank Street had abated nothing of its stone-flagged dreariness; the same blowsy woman answered his inquiry.

  4. By tapping on a sort of ticket-office with a sliding window, he attracted the attention of a blowsy woman with soap-suds on her arms, who informed him that the person he was looking for had gone without leaving his address.

  5. Her rough brown hair was all in little blowsy ringlets round her face and the two braids hanging in front of her shoulders ended each in a big blowsy curl.

  6. Such a pink and white boy he was, with a dimple in each cheek and a blowsy tow head.

  7. Blowsy or not, they don't seem to have done you much harm this journey, Captain.

  8. I'd like to get hold of some of those blowsy editors that come smelling round the dock after yarns and drink, and wring their necks.

  9. A great, pink, blowsy woman with a voice like two trains shunting.

  10. The boarders stopped chewing and stared in absorbed interest, while Virginia kissed her blowsy mother.

  11. She had seen Lize but once, and that was in the distorting atmosphere of the restaurant, and she remembered her only as a lumpy, scowling, loud-voiced creature with blowsy hair and a watchful eye.

  12. Why are you afraid of being blowsy to-night, Polly?


  13. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blowsy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    dowdy; frowsy; ruddy; slattern; slatternly; slovenly; sordid; tacky