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Example sentences for "saucy"

Lexicographically close words:
sauces; saucia; sauciest; saucily; sauciness; saue; saued; sauerkraut; saues; sauf
  1. I feel like plagiarizing the saucy hit, in witnessing the desperate efforts aforementioned on the part of our mistaken boy.

  2. Susie is saucy to her mamma, and her mamma's friend reprovingly remarks to the little girl that she is pained and surprised to hear her speak so naughtily to her dear mamma.

  3. This messenger arrived at the same time with Caius, and Caius and he met: and who should it be but Caius' old enemy the steward, whom he had formerly tript up by the heels for his saucy behaviour to Lear.

  4. This is some saucy vagabond, some travelling Egyptian.

  5. Leave me my tears a while, And to my Just rage give a little place: What saucy man are you, that without leave, Enter upon a Widows mournfull house?

  6. Saucy fellow, you must excuse his breeding.

  7. Betty, with a very saucy fleer, said to Shorey, There would be a trial of skill about that she fancied.

  8. In me, notwithstanding your saucy lecturing, and your saucy reflections before, you are sure of a friend, as well as of a brother, if it be not your own fault.

  9. None of your saucy contempts [rising in her voice]: None of your poor Bella's, with that air of superiority in a younger sister!

  10. I am sorry, on reflection, that I put my mamma into so much confusion--To be sure it was very saucy in me.

  11. Such a saucy meekness; such a best manner; and such venom in words!

  12. Indeed, it seemed to me that it made him cling closer to she than ever; and I got real down-hearted when it come time to fit out t' Saucy Lass for North Labrador once more.

  13. In the harbour lay his schooner, a saucy little craft which he had purchased only a short while before.

  14. Radisson, elbowing a saucy spark from the wall for the tenth time in as many paces.

  15. Great hackney-coaches, sunk at the waist like those old gallipot boats of ours, went ploughing past through the mud of mid-road, with bepowdered footmen clinging behind and saucy coachmen perched in front.

  16. But the strained temper, the spoiled, authoritative ways, the saucy caprices of his bride, were no blemishes in Edgar Linton's eyes.

  17. As Jory was smoking, she took his cigarette out of his mouth and set it in her own, but without pausing in her chatter, which suggested that of a saucy magpie.

  18. At which she merrily expressed surprise in a loud voice, looking at him with her saucy eyes.

  19. A saucy little squirrel ran up the tree beneath which the girl lay, and, poised on a high twig, looked down and chattered at her noisily.

  20. Charles, you know you are just admiring your wife, and not hurrying a bit," called back saucy Betty.

  21. Rose's saucy eyes sparkled with fun: you might have lighted a candle at one and exploded a mine at the other; but not a syllable did she utter.

  22. Could one of the dog-days change to mid-winter in a second, it would hardly seem so cold and cross as Rose de Beaurepaire turned from the smiling, saucy fairy of the moment before.

  23. Either there is a civil strife in heaven, Or else the world too saucy with the gods Incenses them to send destruction.

  24. Do you hear, Mrs. Jervis, cried he again, how pertly I am interrogated by this saucy slut?

  25. Now tell me where it is you hide your written papers, your saucy journal?

  26. It will be saucy in you if you don't answer me directly to what I ask.

  27. He clasped his arms about her, and kissed her: You are a dear saucy sister, said he; but I must love you!

  28. These you have absolutely rejected; and that, though in saucy terms enough, yet in such a manner as makes me admire you the more.

  29. And that would bring down upon me an hundred saucy things, and low-born brats, and I can't tell what!

  30. I think, said he, half-smiling, you may wonder at my patience, that I can be so easy to read myself abused as I am by such a saucy slut.

  31. I shall soon, in a manner that becomes me, let the saucy fellow know how much I resent his part of the affair.

  32. So, sir, added I, you see I could be a little saucy upon occasion.

  33. Why, said I, I was a little saucy once or twice; and she would have given me a cuff on the ear, if her woman and Mrs. Jewkes had not interposed.

  34. So I went and sat me down in the window, and she took her place at the upper end of the table; and her saucy Jackey, fleering at me most provokingly, sat down by her.

  35. Sure, I that was born in this house, may have some privilege in it, without being talked to by the saucy servants in it!

  36. Rosa laughed, with a saucy retort, and turned into her chamber.

  37. Mabel entered by the glass door behind him--her hands loaded with roses, herself so beaming that her lover refrained with difficulty from kissing the saucy mouth then and there.

  38. Evidently she was not enjoying her saucy triumph much.

  39. Aunt West, she was so proud and scornful and overbearing that I was vexed at her; and I'm afraid that I was just a little bit saucy to her.

  40. He was proud of her saucy beauty, and it was pleasing to an old man's vanity to think that other people thought she loved him.

  41. If Burrus and Seneca had applied Brockway methods to Agrippina and her saucy son, as they easily might, it would have made Rome howl with delight, and saved the State as well as the individuals.

  42. Don't fancy, madame, that I am doting, or that you can manage me with your saucy coquetry or sulky insolence.

  43. He then blew such a blast on his horn that the Giant awoke and came out of his den, crying out: "You saucy villain, you shall pay for this!

  44. The Queen was so enraged at the honors conferred on Sir Thomas that she resolved to ruin him, and told the King that the little knight had been saucy to her.

  45. And who helped you to do it, you saucy goblin?

  46. As they were eagerly gazing at the splendid view which had now darkened and deepened with twilight shadows, a saucy puff of wind came round a jutting point, and in an instant blew off Minnie's round hat.

  47. Blanchette peeped in from behind a silk curtain; her saucy babyish eyes were full of curiosity and wonder.

  48. They were pretty children, with clouds of hair and saucy peevish little faces.


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