Example Sentences

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Still, some of the flunkeys are wearing pretty frocks so it’s all alright then.

From The Guardian • Oct. 14, 2019

Known as flunkeys, they would walk on to the stage with stately ceremony, bow to the dancers, offer the flowers, step back, bow again and walk off with the same choreographed deliberation.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2014

The Queen has pots of money, flunkeys galore, a penchant for calling rabbits "bunny-wunnies" and no imagination whatsoever.

From The Guardian • Aug. 22, 2012

By 6 the flunkeys were mopping up and sweeping together the fragments.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had sent one of her swan's-down flunkeys and asked whether she would be welcome to-morrow.

From Royal Highness by Mann, Thomas