Example sentences for: hickey

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

  • (This residual anger can be seen even in Bill Cosby's early acting--he's the only good thing in the otherwise atrocious Mother, Jugs & Speed and there's a compelling undercurrent of rancor in his work in Hickey & Boggs --before he retired from the human race.

  • Before accepting O'Connor's resignation, the pope is expected to name a successor to Washington's Cardinal James Hickey.

  • Although the modern slang hickey means a ` “suction” kiss that leaves a mark,' and not, thank God, as CDS has it, “raises a blister,” its original meaning was `skin blemish,' and cosmetic makers in the US in the 1930s regularly used the word in their advertising (often with the implied sense `pimple').

  • Hickey et al.

  • Spacey as Hickey, the slick-talking salesman who punctures the pipe dreams of a pack of sad sack rummies in Harry Hope's bar, "gives the performance of his life," says Time 's Richard Zoglin: "A potentially grueling evening becomes a breathtaking experience."


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