Example Sentences

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It was a curious chick from which the politician grew: a shy boy, with large round eyes in a large round head, born in 1889 in a gingerbready house in Cincinnati.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a stone mansion on Chicago's State Street and on a gingerbready Victorian estate at Wisconsin's Lake Geneva, the Fairbanks entertained transient celebrities.

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Oakland County's limestone courthouse is a gingerbready, dishwater-grey building, set at the principal business intersection, Saginaw and Huron streets.

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Despite her "gingerbready" mannerisms, Sandy is fast becoming known as one of the most imaginative actresses around.

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I saw that the paint is soiled, the rug worn, the pictures cheap, the bed and bureau trimmed with gingerbready scrolls and knobs.

From Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' by Groce, Helen Mason