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

Installed were 100 press telephone wires, carloads of typewriters, platoons of flunkeys.

From Time Magazine Archive

Prince Herman and the equerries follow them up the colossal staircase, through the hedge of flunkeys, who stand motionless with fixed eyes that do not seem to see.

From Majesty A Novel by Couperus, Louis