Example sentences for: sissy

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

  • Every family has a gun, and none of your sissy American pistols; these are assault rifles.

  • Sissy Spacek and Christopher Walken, though, both stand out as Fraser's daffy frozen-in-time parents.

  • Others move in the opposite direction and join the Israeli army, where Yiddish, the language of our sissy exile, is most definitely not spoken.

  • Grainy, home-movielike flashbacks show Coburn taunting the boy for being a sissy and then beating him senseless when he tries to fight back.

  • Some of us respond to this slander by embracing, in the words of the cultural critic Daniel Boyarin, our "sissy heritage" and taking up, among other things, the study of Yiddish (not for nothing is it known as "mama-loshen ," the mother tongue).


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