Example sentences for: perky

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

  • The breakdown occasions a jigsaw of memories: of an upstate New York boyhood dominated by a local-hero dad; of doomed attempts to make it in the straight world of Manhattan advertising; of romantic humiliations at the hands of perky centerfold blondes; and, finally, of dreamlike interludes in sadistic mental hospitals.

  • In a peaceful, green canalside setting disturbed only by perky Canada geese, notoriously loud honkers, you’ll find authentic pre-1867 buildings, from the simple timbered sawmill or old schoolhouse to the sophisticated brick-built Crysler Hall in the Palladian style favored by colonial land owners from Ontario to Alabama.

  • 3. "It's perky, it's active, it's eating."

  • With perky breasts.

  • A real-estate broker who fails to sell a big house (her only potential customers are blank-faced African-Americans, Indian-Americans, and surly lesbians), she wears a mask of perky efficiency and insists on listening to Muzak while she and her husband and daughter eat her "nutritious yet savory" dinners.


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