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22 example sentences for PRIM, such as:
1. You can't tell that joke to her she's much too prim and proper.
2. We tend to imagine that the Victorians were very prim and proper.
3. I'll be as prim as I can and not get into any scrapes, if I can help it.
4. I've played the part of a prim young lady on the stage, and I'll try it off.
5. It was a strange conjunction — the prim serious young Queen and the elderly, cynical Whig.
2. We tend to imagine that the Victorians were very prim and proper.
3. I'll be as prim as I can and not get into any scrapes, if I can help it.
4. I've played the part of a prim young lady on the stage, and I'll try it off.
5. It was a strange conjunction — the prim serious young Queen and the elderly, cynical Whig.
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Meanings and Examples of PRIM
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prim
a. very precise and formal; exceedingly proper
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1 As for you, Amy," continued Meg, "you are altogether too particular and prim.
2 I'll be as prim as I can and not get into any scrapes, if I can help it.
3 And he looked up and laughed outright, for Jo's prim manner was rather funny when he remembered how they had chatted about cricket when he brought the cat home.
4 But Aunt March had not this gift, and she worried Amy very much with her rules and orders, her prim ways, and long, prosy talks.
5 I've played the part of a prim young lady on the stage, and I'll try it off.
6 We both bowed, and then we laughed, for the prim introduction and the blunt addition were rather a comical contrast.
7 It was a prim, virginal little room and it lay still and warm in the slanting rays of the four-o'clock sun.
8 Beyond him, in the hallway and the living-room, sitting in a vast prim circle as though they were attending a funeral, she saw the guests.
9 It was not a brutal countenance, but it was prim, hard, and stern, with a firm-set, thin-lipped mouth, and a coldly intolerant eye.
10 It was a very long street of two-story brick houses, neat and prim, with whitened stone steps and little groups of aproned women gossiping at the doors.
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11 Dunyasha, a girl very prim in the master's house, and a romp outside the gates, only giggled in answer.
12 She leaned against her mother and burst into such a loud, ringing fit of laughter that even the prim visitor could not help joining in.
13 Jo understood why Laurie 'primmed up his mouth' when speaking of Kate, for that young lady had a standoff-don't-touch-me air, which contrasted strongly with the free and easy demeanor of the other girls.
14 Jo stood aloof, meanwhile, trying to harden her heart against him, and succeeding only in primming up her face into an expression of entire disapprobation.
15 Oh, it wasn't fair that she should have to sit here primly and be the acme of widowed dignity and propriety when she was only seventeen.
Example Sentence:
1 We tend to imagine that the Victorians were very prim and proper.
2 It was a strange conjunction — the prim serious young Queen and the elderly, cynical Whig.
3 You can't tell that joke to her she's much too prim and proper.
4 Many people commented on the contrast between the prim attire of the young lady and the inappropriate clothing worn by her escort.