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Example sentences for "frowzy"

Lexicographically close words:
frowned; frowning; frowningly; frowns; frowsy; froze; frozen; fructification; fructifications; fructified
  1. II They went to him, and took up and carried him into the tavern, and laid him down upon a frowzy bed in the room where the child lay upon the iron-framed cot.

  2. Keeping close in the shadow of this creature's frowzy skirts, she had not so feared and dreaded those light eyes of Bough's, and the padding, following footsteps had kept aloof.

  3. The frowzy woman with the bleached hair happened to come in at that moment; or had she been spying through a crack of the door?

  4. The sisters wash at the sink, Mika combing her mass of frowzy dark hair, talking meanwhile.

  5. The tall gloom of six-story tenements that made a prison wall of dulled yellow, bristling with bedding-piled fire-escapes and the curious heads of frowzy women.

  6. A frowzy old hobo poked a somnolent head up from a pile of lumber near the tracks and yawned welcome to the recruit.

  7. And sure enough the green silk curtains were presently drawn back, and the drowsy, blowzy, frowzy face of the dairymaid looked out.

  8. For the kind of person the Princess had changed into was a blowzy, frowzy dairymaid, with oily black hair and shining red cheeks, and little black eyes like the currant eyes in gingerbread pigs.

  9. He went first to the top floor, stopping at one door after another, where dirty, frowzy women and children opened at the sound of his cheery whistle.

  10. More than once he had caught a glimpse in the streets of the lank figure and the frowzy red head, but Carrots had no desire to meet Theo and he took good care to keep out of his way.

  11. By day the streets are a depression, with their frowzy doss-houses and their vapour-baths.

  12. There was a great din of voices coming from its frowzy interior, and he wondered.

  13. It was well painted, too, and stood out amongst its frowzy neighbors a thing approaching beauty.

  14. There is a harmony between the breakfast and the frowzy Gaelic cook we saw "sozzling" about in the kitchen.

  15. The frowzy servant piloted us up to his sleeping-room.

  16. Suddenly the dog, Monk, who had been suspiciously watching the frowzy stranger, broke into a fury of disparagement which no commands from his mistress could quell.

  17. But beware lest we pound that frowzy flesh of yours into mincemeat.

  18. We may now be frowzy and smelly, as we munch away lustily with our voracious appetites, but by and bye we'll prove as refined as scholars, as if we had cultured minds and polished tongues.

  19. Then he suddenly rose; and, moving down to a bench close against the low partition which separated the ring from the audience, fixed his eyes intently on a doorway opposite to him, overhung by a frowzy red curtain with a tinsel border.

  20. I was almost at the door when the frowzy little dame in the corner, which I had forgotten she was there, come over and touched me on the arm.

  21. She tied a frowzy bonnet over a still more frowzy head, lighted her pipe, and departed for the woods behind the house.

  22. Here there was a torn hat, and there some fragments of rotten old boots, and scattered around a small attendant litter of torn paper and frowzy rags.

  23. What can she have in common with that tiresome, frowzy old Frosty?

  24. Only she happens to be her sister, and that tiresome, frowzy old Frosty, as you call her, has looked after her since she was a little child, when her mother died.

  25. Frowzy and husky is the hair Nature crowns him with; frowzy and stubby the beard.

  26. Nobody on the way, none of the frowzy women or unintelligent men, knew anything of the route, or could give us any information of the country beyond.

  27. The women who regarded the passers from their cabin doors were frowzy and looked tired.

  28. She refuses to dress up, because it is easier to take care of baby in a frowzy wrapper.

  29. Hamitchou, a frowzy ancient of the Squallyamish, told to Dr.

  30. Cocoa-palms will infect him with such tropical indolence, that he will not stir until frowzy monkeys climb the tree and pelt him away to the next one.

  31. How wild he looked, that youth so frowzy by daylight, as, stooping under the tall sedges, he clutched those priceless sparkles.

  32. An inductive philosopher, tracing the laws of developing human thought in corpore viti of a frowzy savage, finds his work simple,--the nuggets are on the surface.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "frowzy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bad; bedraggled; blasted; blighted; blown; careless; chintzy; dilapidated; dowdy; draggled; fecal; fetid; foul; frowzy; fulsome; funky; fusty; gamy; grubby; high; informal; loose; maggoty; malodorous; messy; miasmic; mildewed; moldering; moldy; mussy; musty; negligent; noisome; noxious; odorous; offensive; poky; putrid; ragged; rancid; rank; ravaged; reeking; repulsive; rotten; ruinous; scraggly; seedy; shabby; shoddy; slack; slatternly; slipshod; sloppy; slovenly; sluttish; smelly; smutty; sordid; squalid; stinking; strong; stuffy; sulfurous; tacky; tattered; unkempt; unsightly; untidy; vile; weevily; wormy