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Example sentences for "gawdy"

Lexicographically close words:
gavest; gavial; gavotte; gawa; gawan; gawk; gawky; gawn; gay; gayan
  1. The Seasons of the year find no fond Parents, yet some are arm'd in silver Ice that glisters, and some in gawdy Green come in like Masquers.

  2. Gawdy married three wives, and by each had a son Thomas.

  3. To Chivalry you need have no recourse, The gawdy Trappings make the Ass a Horse.

  4. Far as the Eye can reach, the gawdy Train, A bright Procession, shines along the Plain.

  5. To endeavour it, is to build a gawdy Structure without any Foundation; or, if I may be allow'd the Expression, to work a rich Embroidery upon a Cobweb.

  6. So let the Expression in Pastoral be without gawdy trappings, and all those little fineries of Art, which are us'd to set off and varnish a discourse: But let an ingenuous Simplicity.

  7. The other chair is kept at Gawdy Hall, the seat of the Sancrofts (125).

  8. Mr. Justice Gawdy corroborated this, uttering the solitary judicial dictum recorded of him, that 'the statute of Edward had been found inconvenient, and had therefore been repealed.

  9. Gawdy had uttered no word of protest against the shameless misbehaviour of his Chief and the Attorney throughout the hearing.

  10. I don't hold by these gawdy bedizened foreigners nohow.

  11. Bright beads, gawdy feathers and gay blankets gave cheerful color to the scene.

  12. Not Heaven's fair bow can equal thee, In all its gawdy drapery: Thou first essay of light, and pledge of day!

  13. See the Flowers how sweetly they spread, And each Resigns his Gawdy Head, To make for us a Fragrant Bed, To practice o'er New Blisses.

  14. The above Sir Henry Gawdy was created Knight of the Bath at the coronation of James I.

  15. Sir Thomas Gawdy, Knight, of Gawdy Hall, in Redenhall, a judge in the reign of Charles II.


  16. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gawdy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.