Example sentences for: dickie

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

  • We watch him having the time of his life, but there's no question of his ever fitting in with Dickie, his willowy girlfriend Marge (Gwyneth Paltrow), or even their fat, to-the-manner-born pal Freddie Miles (a hilarious Philip Seymour Hoffman)--he's too tense, too hungry, too incomplete.

  • Ol' Dickie, we were told, was a printer from Mexia, a tiny Texas town whose previous claim to fame had been that it was the birthplace of Anna Nicole Smith (which itself is one for the Hall of Dubious Distinctions).

  • I'm reminded of the time in late '95 or early '96, during his belly-flop presidential bid, when Phil Gramm introduced Dickie Flatt to the world.

  • Adapted from Patricia Highsmith's novel, the film follows Tom Ripley (Matt Damon), a poor loner who usurps the identity of Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law), a rich playboy loafing around Italy in the late '50s.

  • Dickie worked so hard and such long hours that his hands were forever stained with printer's ink--and if that didn't make Dickie Flatt and Ordinary Americans like him deserving of a massive tax cut, well, tarnation.


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