Example sentences for: proper

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

  • The harbor separates the city proper, with the Stanley Park promontory, from its elegant north shore mountainside suburbs of West and North Vancouver.

  • Since PSS does not occur in rec12 null mutants [ 52 ] , those centromere-homozygous chromosomes must have experienced a proper reductional segregation and a failed equational segregation (discussed below).

  • This is even true of the proper treatment of modifiers.

  • One of the 18 negative controls was discarded because no lane gave rise to a sharp band of the proper size.

  • The French adopted the habit as an intensifier of musculine nouns, proper and improper, and this too became mostly pejorative, as in mouchard sneak or informer (from mouche fly), and froussard coward (from frousse fright), and bastard , a trenchant abbreviation of fils de bast pack-saddle child.


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