Example Sentences

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Many are on horseback: stiff-backed and spiffily attired riders in wide-brimmed hats, high-waisted paseo trousers and cropped guayabera jackets.

From New York Times • May 8, 2023

Its members — who resembled the kind of spiffily dressed-down types you might find at a Brooklyn art opening — were escorted in groups of three or four up another street and into a courtyard.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2015

But that’s rarely true, and it’s probably not true of the rousing, spiffily acted “Treasure Island” now at the Irondale Center in Brooklyn.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2011

The intensity with which the spiffily attired investment brokers of the African Banking Corp. stare at their computer screens is misleading.

From Time Magazine Archive

Appalachian cabins never gleamed so spiffily as at Dolly Parton's new Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. Country music rarely sounded so all-fired wholesome as it does at Nashville's Opryland.

From Time Magazine Archive