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Example sentences for "ornery"

Lexicographically close words:
ornate; ornately; ornatus; ornement; ornements; ornis; ornithic; ornithological; ornithologist; ornithologists
  1. He thought of Old Mose and his mule, thought too of the "ornery no-count" Blinkey Bill who planned to beat Mose out of his coal mine.

  2. That ornery hound kept coming and coming till he had begged back all the camels and had the whole hundred.

  3. Tom's old ornery corn-cob pipe had got so old and swelled and warped that she couldn't hold together any longer, notwithstanding the strings and bandages, but caved in and went to pieces.

  4. And Green Valley folks are ornery enough on top and when things are going smoothly for you.

  5. But that ain't saying that somebody's ornery critter won't harm him.

  6. He's an ornery cuss, he'd appreciate it all right, that old mule.

  7. And he had a little small bull-pup, that to look at him you'd think he warn't worth a cent but to set around and look ornery and lay for a chance to steal something.

  8. With shot gun in hand, he made his way to the door, flung it open and curtly ordered: "Come out of there, you ornery thief!

  9. We know that that ornery bunch of skunks and coyotes of Morello's is sky-hootin' round here some place.

  10. That old plug has filled his ornery carcass up on it.

  11. But these others--they were mean enough and ornery enough; but they were humans.

  12. You'd get a ornery hallybi fer a guinea a head, but they'd keep out of this case.

  13. Of all th' ornery outfits I ever saw--" began the man at the table, grinning from ear to ear at the spectacle he had just witnessed.

  14. An' me a-fillin' his ornery hide with liquor.

  15. We better get a move on an' find that ornery little cuss," replied Buck.

  16. They said he worked just to be ornery and different from the rest, he hated them so.

  17. Hosstyle and ornery to the whole world; sort of bulging out and exploding with silence, as it were.

  18. That's what we're put here for, to help them as is too ornery to help theirselves.

  19. The more I studied about this the more my conscience went to grinding me, and the more wicked and low-down and ornery I got to feeling.

  20. He said if we warn't prisoners it would be a very different thing, and nobody but a mean, ornery person would steal when he warn't a prisoner.

  21. The savages may have found life a summer's dream prior to the arrival of that Eytalian mariner an' the ornery Spainiards he surrounds himse'f with.

  22. Silver Phil--imagine the turpitoode of sech a ornery wretch!

  23. But," he added hastily, "in ornery clothes.

  24. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot.

  25. I felt so ornery and low down and mean that I says to myself, my mind's made up; I'll hive that money for them or bust.

  26. Jest my luck," said Shif'less Sol, "to be left on a desert island with an ornery cuss like Jim Hart.

  27. The jail was a ornery edifiss, but the table was librally surplied with Bakin an Cabbidge.

  28. I'm for the Union as she air, and withered be the arm of every ornery cuss who attempts to bust her up.

  29. It is the patent duty of every physician to instruct the members of his clientele in the fundamental rules of health.

  30. The lines are made by the highly magnified string of the galvanometer as it moves across the slit in the photographic apparatus in response to the induction currents set up in the heart magnified by the special galvanometer.

  31. The Venous Pulse= It would carry us too far to discuss fully the character of the venous pulse, but a brief summary of the essential features of the normal venous pulse is presented.

  32. Wal, that night, a blamed ornery thief come 'long and stole all them potatoes.

  33. Was it the two ornery scrubs we're after?

  34. I felt ornery enough to go off and get horned by a steer, but I reckoned I sure had to.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ornery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    baleful; base; bearish; cantankerous; cheap; cheesy; churlish; common; contrary; contumacious; crabbed; cranky; cross; crotchety; crusty; cussed; defiant; difficult; disagreeable; excitable; fractious; froward; harmful; hateful; huffy; iniquitous; invidious; irascible; irritable; malicious; malign; malignant; mean; nasty; noxious; obstreperous; ornery; perverse; recalcitrant; refractory; restive; snappish; spiteful; splenetic; stubborn; stuffy; sullen; testy; ugly; unruly; waspish; wayward; wicked; wild; wrongheaded