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Example sentences for "ugly"

Lexicographically close words:
uery; ufer; uglier; ugliest; ugliness; ugy; uile; uirum
  1. One by one, the rest gave in and burst for the comparatively free air of the deck, but Teach's ugly head was the last to come up the hatch, and his pride thereon was inordinate.

  2. One little blind boy, led by his brother, both frightfully ugly and ragged urchins, pursued us all over the city, incessantly whining 'Signore Padrone!

  3. Round the mouth, with its ugly yellow teeth, a satiric smile played; the expression of the short-sighted eyes behind the spectacles was half defiant, half dignified.

  4. If I ever get hold of thee, thou ugly bird, I will pluck out thy feathers and cut off thy claws, perch thee high in air on a pole, and call the archers of the Rhineland to the merry shooting-match.

  5. But tomorrow--' and his ugly face grew more cheerful.

  6. It looked an ugly place, but there I must go, for the rock-wall I was on was getting unclimbable.

  7. For the two were the black minister and that ugly yellow villain, Henriques.

  8. It is easy to talk about crossing a river, and looking to-day at the slender streak on the map I am amazed that so small a thing should have given me such ugly tremors.

  9. I saw my hands on the treasure, and Henriques' ugly neck below my heel.

  10. He had been solacing himself with a pipe and a whiskey toddy, and was in a not unnaturally ugly mood.

  11. He won't make love to his sister, because the poor, rich, unsophisticated girl is as ugly as she is ubiquitous.

  12. I don't like to make ugly comparisons to a man whom I believe to be more than half interested in a woman, but it makes me think of the old story about Medusa.

  13. The ferry really only goes to Wecanicut on account of the Fort, because there's nothing else there but a few farm houses and some ugly summer cottages near the ferry-slip.

  14. Just beside the dinghy our man paused and looked all around at the ugly blackness of the Sea Monster and up to the jaggedy top of it.

  15. After his experience in the orchard, Jim was well acquainted with the ugly animal's tactics.

  16. Carl, I wish you'd see Colonel Flesher and sell that ugly brute.

  17. He was glad the steer hadn't ruined her begonias, though why anyone set such a store by ugly waxy-leaved plants like begonias, he didn't know.

  18. Then as he calmed down he saw the stranger had an ugly but rather pleasant countenance.

  19. Partly for that reason I strangled the ugly thing that was writhing in my bosom, and put Alma (who had flown to me with affectionate rapture) next to my husband, and the colonel commanding on the Citadel in the seat beside me.

  20. But the strange thing was--I could not account for it--that after a few minutes I thought her extremely ugly and repellent, for her face seemed to be distorted by malice and envy and hatred and nearly every other bad passion.

  21. An ugly and depraved thing, which my pride or my self-respect had never hitherto permitted me to believe in, suddenly leapt into life.

  22. Looking back upon that ugly hour, I wonder why, under the circumstances, I should have been so wounded, but I remember that a sense of discomfort amounting to shame came upon me at sight of the sorry bargaining.

  23. I believe I've got the rights of a father to do what I mean to do, and that it will be an ugly business for anybody who aids and abets my daughter in resisting her father's will.

  24. At first he won and then he drank heavily, but afterwards he lost and then his nature became still more ugly and repulsive.

  25. No; it has an ugly look to it, but the only way to run a ship is to make yourself a terror.

  26. I'm to run this ship to your satisfaction," he added, with an ugly sneer.

  27. That's an ugly way to put it," I objected, "and perhaps hardly fair.

  28. An ugly brute of a modern man-of-war lay just without the reef, now quite inert, now giving a flap or two with her propeller.

  29. It foamed and danced, here and there broken by a huge rock, black and ugly looking.

  30. Now they were just ahead, ugly and bristling in their might; now they were alongside; now they were past.

  31. How can you possibly paint these ugly three-cornered hats?

  32. For, to the real artist, nothing is beautiful or ugly in itself at all.

  33. When I was at Leadville and reflected that all the shining silver that I saw coming from the mines would be made into ugly dollars, it made me sad.

  34. I believe that in every twenty-four hours what is beautiful looks ugly, and what is ugly looks beautiful, once.

  35. Ugly dress is better for art--facts of vision, not of the object.

  36. A beastly, ugly smear on one of the beauty-spots of the city.

  37. Men and women were dressed up in chiffons of gauze or merino that were very ugly at a distance and very ignoble de prês.

  38. A charming and very witty woman, the Duchess de Duras, used to say: "Desdemona, what an ugly name!

  39. The people believe themselves to have descended from a Chinese dog and a woman, who alone escaped from shipwreck on that coast and left a progeny; owing to which circumstance in their opinion, the men are all ugly and the women handsome.

  40. Solyman was a Greek janizary born in the Morea, of an ugly countenance, short of stature, and had so large a belly that he was more like a beast than a man, not being able to rise up without the aid of four men.

  41. She was uncouth, awkward, a thin black thing ugly as sin.

  42. When he looked at the squat puncher, thick-necked and leather-faced, an ugly sneer on his lips, the courage died out of his breast.

  43. Angrily, and with ugly words, the elder Hulker turned on the clerk.

  44. But "Polyblasphemous" is ugly and rebellious.

  45. An ugly red birth-mark added to his facial deformity, but what more than anything else gave it its baleful expression was the sneer that never seemed to leave his mouth.

  46. There is a nice old sister in Silas Marner who says to some ladies who had not at all recognised their own want of beauty, “I don’t mind being ugly a bit, do you?

  47. Nobody is ugly now,” she wrote in 1831, “but myself!

  48. To-day, however, they brought ugly reports; and I ought to tell you that some of them concern you.

  49. That ugly creature who went up with Alice for the money--you caught him?

  50. I wonder if she knows," thought Azalea, "how ugly she is when she bawls like that.

  51. He may be as old as Methusalem, and as ugly as a foreign Frenchman, but I would marry him--to take my place in the prison and go free once more.

  52. It was as impudent and ugly a head as ever I saw.

  53. If he kept his footing all would be well; but, should he ever trip on one of the roots that cropped out of the ground, perhaps the ugly horns of the beast would gore him before he could roll out of reach.

  54. You don't think that ugly Anthony Brady did it?

  55. He has an even chance if I can cleanse that ugly wound," replied Bob, meeting his father's eye steadily.

  56. In vain the boy struggled with all his might; his strength was not equal to that of the man who held him, and, when the four ugly looking red men had gathered around him, the nearest snatched his musket away.

  57. Afther chasing me up here the ugly ould baste took a notion to scratch at me gun down on the ground; and as by bad luck the hammer was back, bedad if he didn't manage somehow to pull the trigger.

  58. He carried a gun in his hand, and there was an ugly expression on his bearded face.

  59. It appeared at times to poor, impatient Sandy that they were having one of those ugly nightmares, where one's feet are glued to the ground, and all the while the peril plunges along toward the wretched dreamer.

  60. One look told him what was threatening, for the face of the advancing settler betrayed the ugly thoughts that filled his mind.

  61. Among the gaping clowns who drank in this frightful story was a worthless ugly lad of the name of Hunt, since widely known as William Huntington, S.


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ugly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alarming; awful; bad; base; bearish; bitter; blemished; cantankerous; churlish; crabbed; cranky; critical; cross; crusty; cussed; dangerous; despicable; disagreeable; disfigured; displeasing; distasteful; dour; evil; excitable; explosive; fell; forbidding; fractious; frightful; ghastly; gloomy; grave; grievous; hideous; homely; huffy; inelegant; irascible; irritable; marred; mean; menacing; monstrous; morose; nasty; ornery; parlous; perilous; perverse; pesky; plain; repulsive; saturnine; seamy; serious; servile; snappish; sour; spiteful; splenetic; spoiled; squalid; sullen; surly; testy; thankless; threatening; troublesome; troublous; ugly; unaesthetic; unalluring; unappetizing; unattractive; unbeautiful; uncomely; undesirable; ungraceful; unhandsome; uninviting; unlovely; unpalatable; unpleasant; unsavory; unsightly; unwelcome; vexatious; vile; waspish; wicked