FUSSY in a Sentence
Learn FUSSY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
13 example sentences for FUSSY, such as:
1. She is not fussy about her food.
2. Leonora was fussy about her looks.
3. But he always was so nervous and fussy and old maidish.
4. Of course, they had good reason to be fussy on such a night.
5. It can indeed be fussy, filling with ornament what should be empty space.
2. Leonora was fussy about her looks.
3. But he always was so nervous and fussy and old maidish.
4. Of course, they had good reason to be fussy on such a night.
5. It can indeed be fussy, filling with ornament what should be empty space.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Animal Farm by George Orwell |
Meanings and Examples of FUSSY
Definitions: Search Google Search M.Webster
fussy
a. exacting especially about details
a. overcrowded or cluttered with detail
Classic Sentence:
1 Mammy hurried Scarlett up the dark stairs, muttering fussy remarks about cold hands and thin shoes and Scarlett looked meek and was well content.
2 But he always was so nervous and fussy and old maidish.
3 "I'd think a man as fussy and old maidish as Frank would keep things tidier," she thought, scrubbing her grimy hands with her handkerchief.
4 For fussy discussion they had a rich, full genius, and their example developed in Kennicott a tendency to the same form of affectionate flaying.
5 They dwelt in a fussy, scroll-work house, painted white and buried in thick evergreens, with a fussy white fence and barn.
6 He was a short, thick-set man, carefully dressed, with a round, good-natured countenance, and something rather fussy and particular in his appearance.
7 Now Florence's mama hadn't a particle of taste, and Amy suffered deeply at having to wear a red instead of a blue bonnet, unbecoming gowns, and fussy aprons that did not fit.
8 Of course, they had good reason to be fussy on such a night.
9 not two paces away, Simonov repeated, accompanying me to the front door with a fussy air which did not suit him at all.
Example Sentence:
1 Dentists criticize the practice of giving fussy children sweets to pacify them.
2 It can indeed be fussy, filling with ornament what should be empty space.
3 Leonora was fussy about her looks.
4 She is not fussy about her food.