Example sentences for: patsy

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

  • Time 's cover story is more restrained: New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani ("makes Ken Starr look like a patsy") would rip her to shreds, and it's not clear she even wants to run.

  • Police suspect it will match the boots Patsy was wearing the night of the murder.

  • Police have taken five handwriting samples from Patsy Ramsey and compared them against the 2½ page ransom note, the complete contents of which have not been made public.

  • Editorialists grumbled that Clinton had come off as a wimp and a patsy; Sino-pundits called the shortsighted, conniving American president no match for the farsighted, conniving Chinese.

  • In the nicknames Babs and Nobs, the suffix -s is an old diminutive suffix like - y; in fact, a few nicknames apparently combine the two: Betsy, Patsy, and Nancy.


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