Example sentences for: hanky-panky

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

  • There's little doubt that his consultants broke election laws and no doubt that Democratic officials prefer Carey to Hoffa, but that certainly doesn't mean Carey licensed or even knew about campaign hanky-panky.

  • The story: Everyone wants President Clinton to fess up to the hanky-panky we all know he's guilty of, but the White House stubbornly asserts Clinton's innocence.

  • Those who know Clinton is cheating often point to the model of John F. Kennedy, who turned presidential hanky-panky into a science.

  • Will Clinton invoke executive privilege to veil conversations about the alleged hanky-panky with Monica?

  • Taking the above examples, hunkydory, higgledy-pig-gledy, hanky-panky, hocus pocus, heebie-jeebies, hodgepodge, hokey-pokey, inky-dinky, itsy-bitsy, Holterdipolter, Hülle und Fülle , as can be noted, the second element tends to be a repetition of the first, beginning, however, with a labial ( p, b, f, m, v, w ). Winkler called this the “ aleph-beth rule” and demonstrated its practically universal validity, citing evidence from both medieval and modern gaming rhymes in European and Semitic languages alike.


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