Example sentences for: bonny

How can you use “bonny” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The converse, however, is not true: A big thing made tiny is not comic; it's cute, a dollhouse, a teddy bear, a bonny wee Boris Yeltsin no bigger than your thumb--he can ride to the Duma on the back of a mouse, if he's not too drunk.

  • The author opened with an account of her favorite childhood dramatic heroine, the Lady Monda-green--who died with her lover, the bonny Earl of Murray: “They ha' slain the Earl of Murray, and laid him on the green.”

  • More cheerful was the proverb A bonny bride is shŭn buskit [well dressed]; but the wedding of two very unattractive people was rather unkindly summed up as Hairy butter is good enyoch for siddy [coarse] bread!


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