Example sentences for: playful

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

  • Most correspondents felt sure that they had encountered deep-seated elitism, when actually all they had run into was a playful desire to keep the newspapers fun.

  • Had he combined with his vast learning a light and playful style, he would not more effectually have strewn the field with the slain, but he would have made the process as delightful as it was edifying.

  • Another group of names--a group Hanks and Hodges call imperative surnames, or names formed by the joining of a verb-stem and a noun--displays an especially playful method of Italian scurrility.

  • And thank goodness all those dull bureaucrats have been displaced by witty, playful multinational corporate executives.

  • Wish fulfillment is seen in the midst of California's Death Valley, where sidings were given such coolsounding names as Klondike and Siberia . These exotic names also provided opportunities for playful statements like, “We're really sailing today.


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