Example Sentences

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After all, Mr. Ocean, 24, is a rising star in the hypermasculine world of urban music, where singers cultivate images as lady-killers.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2012

The following is a brief encounter with these two ultra stylish lady-killers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Harvey played handsome, heartless lady-killers in such hits as Butterfield 8 and Darling, and was the brainwashed political assassin of The Manchurian Candidate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Put that into your pipe, you callow striplings, who aim to be lady-killers!

From A String of Amber Beads by Holden, Martha Everts

In the orchestra-stalls, lady-killers, clubmen, glistening craniums with broad bald streaks fringed with scanty hair, light gloves, huge opera-glasses levelled at the boxes.

From The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Ives, George Burnham