Example sentences for: dickey

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

  • Dickey marched over to the dugout and punched the offender in the face, earning a month's suspension and a thousand-buck fine.

  • To sidestep this complaint, AMA officials promised never to strike (though Dickey conceded doctors might resist bad employers by "being a little slow in completing some of the paperwork" required by HMOs) and avoided the word "union," instead calling their proposed alliance "an affiliated labor organization."

  • Journalist Christopher Dickey's combination memoir and biography of his poet and novelist ( Deliverance ) father, James Dickey, is praised as a "loving, ruthless portrait" (Lance Morrow, Time ). Although he cleaned up his act a couple of years before dying, Dickey Sr. spent much of his life boozing, telling self-aggrandizing tall tales, and openly cheating on his wife.

  • HMOs treat doctors like "ditch diggers churning through patients," added Dickey.

  • But that's what Beth Dickey reports in the New York Times , and that's good enough for me.


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