Example Sentences

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Earl’s home is an airless, tidily ordered sanctum of records and movies fussily cataloged on index cards.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2022

“I don’t want to draw attention to them,” Liam Payne had said fussily on stage.

From The Guardian • Dec. 2, 2019

Ostensibly an unremarkable London bureaucrat, Mycroft is unmarried, slightly overweight, sedentary and rather fussily set in his ways, passing most of his evenings at the ultra-quiet Diogenes Club.

From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2018

The Salesman’s narrative structure, which alternates scenes of the Etesamis’ own domestic struggles with those of the characters they play onstage, sounds fussily formal on paper.

From Slate • Jan. 24, 2017

The meal, served on square white plates, is fussily arranged, the portions microscopically small.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri