Example Sentences

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The duke was a dandyish dresser who was much in the press in those days.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2023

In this first criminal investigation by the dandyish nobleman, a key clue turns on the ethnic identity of the murder victim.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2019

The dandyish Buster, the “San Saba songbird,” shows up wearing impeccable ecru duds in a dust-brown outpost of dirt-deep outdoorsmen—but Buster turns out to be the toughest of them all.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 14, 2018

Pops is anchored by a piece that he first wrote for GQ about attending Paris Fashion Week with his dandyish son Abraham, who asked for the trip as a bar mitzvah present.

From Slate • May 17, 2018

"Aye, with a certain marchioness there," replied Paul, with a dandyish look of sentimental conceit, which sat strangely enough on his otherwise grim and Fejee air.

From Israel Potter by Melville, Herman