DAPPER in a Sentence
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11 example sentences for DAPPER, such as:
1. He was a dapper young fellow, with a light brown mustache and blue eyes, and a graceful figure.
2. It was like some strange caricature of the dapper James Wilder whom we had seen the night before.
3. The moon shone upon him, and I could distinguish the dapper shape and jaunty walk of the naturalist.
4. He was a dapper little Irishman, very vain, homely as a monkey, with friends everywhere, and a sweetheart in every port, like a sailor.
2. It was like some strange caricature of the dapper James Wilder whom we had seen the night before.
3. The moon shone upon him, and I could distinguish the dapper shape and jaunty walk of the naturalist.
4. He was a dapper little Irishman, very vain, homely as a monkey, with friends everywhere, and a sweetheart in every port, like a sailor.
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Meanings and Examples of DAPPER
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dapper
a. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
Classic Sentence:
1 This was a hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman, with a shock of hair prematurely white, and a boisterous and decided manner.
2 The moon shone upon him, and I could distinguish the dapper shape and jaunty walk of the naturalist.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
Context Highlight In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
3 Holmes had sent on a wire, so that Lestrade, as wiry, as dapper, and as ferret-like as ever, was waiting for us at the station.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
Context Highlight In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
4 A dapper little man, with a quick, alert manner and a waxed moustache, had just descended from a high dog-cart.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
Context Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
5 It was like some strange caricature of the dapper James Wilder whom we had seen the night before.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
Context Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
6 The founder of that great emporium proved to be a brisk, crisp little person, very dapper and quick, with a clear head and a ready tongue.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
Context Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
7 But his dapper self-confidence seemed impenetrable to such hints, and she had a sense of something hard and self-contained behind the superficial warmth of his manner.
8 He was a dapper little Irishman, very vain, homely as a monkey, with friends everywhere, and a sweetheart in every port, like a sailor.
9 He was a dapper young fellow, with a light brown mustache and blue eyes, and a graceful figure.
10 Finally, the prisoner made it understood that his vocabulary was inadequate, and there stepped up a dapper young man with waxed mustaches, bidding him speak in any language he knew.
Example Sentence:
1 In "The Odd Couple" TV show, Tony Randall played Felix Unger, an excessively dapper soul who could not stand to have a hair out of place.