Example sentences for: prissy

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

  • Sales of tobacco pipes are booming; the pipe industry hopes to capitalize on--and supplant--cigar chic, but the Wall Street Journal says skeptics still consider pipes "tweedy and prissy."

  • Years ago, in college, Jack impulsively married smart but prissy Judy (Miranda Richardson), unaware that by doing so, he was entering a stifling ivory tower.

  • But they manage to do so, in the main, without seeming precious or prissy about it.

  • The premise: Two '90s kids are transported into a Father Knows Best -type sitcom and shake up its prissy black-and-white world.

  • And even Microsoft would project more power and mystery if it went by "M" rather than the prissy, feminine "MS."


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