QUAINT in a Sentence
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26 example sentences for QUAINT, such as:
1. Smoke drifted lazily from a multitude of quaint chimneys.
2. He is so quaint that I am determined to understand him as well as I can.
3. 'Yes, I'm glad I went, and such a quaint dear cheeky baby, Clifford,' said Connie.
4. His long luxuriant hair was trained to flow in quaint tresses down his richly furred cloak.
5. The designs, which include flowers in quaint pale colors, give the notes a modern, clean look.
2. He is so quaint that I am determined to understand him as well as I can.
3. 'Yes, I'm glad I went, and such a quaint dear cheeky baby, Clifford,' said Connie.
4. His long luxuriant hair was trained to flow in quaint tresses down his richly furred cloak.
5. The designs, which include flowers in quaint pale colors, give the notes a modern, clean look.
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Meanings and Examples of QUAINT
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quaint
a. odd; old-fashioned; picturesque; unfamiliar or unusual in character
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1 "Rather quaint," said Utterson.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context Highlight In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
Context Highlight In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
2 "It is, as you say, rather quaint," returned Guest.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context Highlight In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
Context Highlight In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
3 His long luxuriant hair was trained to flow in quaint tresses down his richly furred cloak.
4 'Yes, I'm glad I went, and such a quaint dear cheeky baby, Clifford,' said Connie.
5 Those whom Nature had depicted as merely quaint became grotesque, the grotesque became preternatural; for all was in extremity.
6 Eustacia, though living within two miles of the place, had never seen the interior of this quaint old habitation.
7 A minute later we were all seated in a comfortable landau, and were rattling through the quaint old Devonshire city.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
Context Highlight In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
8 He loved her pertness, her high spirits and the quaint sweet manner she had of showing her love for him.
9 I liked Nina, too; she was so quaint and unexpected, and her eyes were lovely; but I often wanted to shake her.
10 They all went together up to the quaint little Gothic church of Our Lady of Lourdes, gleaming all brown and yellow with paint in the sun's glare.
11 Smoke drifted lazily from a multitude of quaint chimneys.
12 Then I began to notice that there were some quaint little specks floating in the rays of the moonlight.
13 He is so quaint that I am determined to understand him as well as I can.
14 And it's so quaint, and gives such a smart emphasis to things that are not in themselves very witty.
15 Brown, soft-eyed children ran out from the quaint stone hovels to offer nosegays, or bunches of oranges still on the bough.
Example Sentence:
1 The designs, which include flowers in quaint pale colors, give the notes a modern, clean look.
2 Ranged on benches down the sides of the room, the eighty girls sat motionless and erect; a quaint assemblage they appeared, all with plain locks combed from their faces, not a curl visible.