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How to use johnny in a sentence

35 example sentences · noun

Johnny means a condom. Example: “Johnny lost a tooth, but kept it for the tooth fairy.”

Examples of johnny by meaning

nounA hospital gown: a gown with a back opening closed with snaps or ties, worn by hospital patients.

  • A little water spilled down the front of the hospital johnny Sean wore.1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

nounSynonym of john: a toilet, lavatory, outhouse, or chamber pot.

  • The women's toilet (as distinguished from the ladies' room in a speakeasy, the johnny at school, the little girls' room at a party in an apartment, and the wash-my-hands on a train) was clean enough.1935, John O'Hara, BUtterfield 8, Ch. ix, page 279
  • Kitty Hofman came in the johnny.1935, John O'Hara, chapter IV, in Appointment in Samarra, page 98

More sentences with johnny

  • Johnny lost a tooth, but kept it for the tooth fairy.From the entry lose
  • Johnny is such a little waver; everyone who passes by receives his preferred greeting.From the entry waver
  • Johnny Chan held jack-nine, and hit gin when a queen-ten-eight board was dealt out.From the entry gin
  • Johnny went through the extra step to delabel the bottles before recycling them.From the entry delabel
  • Johnny wets the bed several times a week.From the entry wet
  • Johnny rivered me by drawing that ace of spades.From the entry river
  • Johnny pleasured Jackie with his mouth last night.From the entry pleasure
  • Johnny had a bad scare last night.From the entry scare
  • Johnny is a good planner. He starts his work in time to get it finished by the deadline.From the entry planner
  • Johnny Carson was a respected television personality.From the entry personality
  • Johnny was an outsider at this year's karate tournament, but he still managed to win second place out of sheer determination.From the entry outsider
  • Johnny banked some coke for me.From the entry bank
  • Johnny, don't forget your rubbers today.From the entry rubber
  • Johnny, the other lad, had to stay on the door, as is standard practice.2003, Julian Davies, Terry Currie, quoting Steve Wraith, Bouncers: Their Lives in Their Own Words, Milo Books, →ISBN. From the entry standard practice
  • Johnny, Dude, Joe and I all got a skin job with a small tuft in front.2002, William True, The Cow Spoke French: The Story of Sgt. William True, American Paratrooper in World War II. From the entry skin job
  • They used to cook bread, damper and johnny cake in bakers.1987, Ida West, “Pride Against Prejudice”, in Heiss & Minter, editor, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin…. From the entry johnny cake
  • Johnny, I just can't resist them peedie white socks with the blue ring round the tops.1972, George Mackay Brown, Greenvoe, Polygon, published 2019, page 66. From the entry peedie
  • Johnny Cash – premieres on Paramount+ on Jan. 16.2024 January 11, Brad Wheeler, “Documentary shines light on country music icon June Carter Cash”, in The Globe and Mail. From the entry biodoc
  • Johnny Marzetti pasta, salads, French bread, desserts, and wine.2017 October 17, Elizabeth Heiskell, What Can I Bring?: Southern Food for Any Occasion Life Serves Up, Time Inc. Books, →ISBN. From the entry Johnny Marzetti
  • Should he get johnny bags from his big brother's room?2011, Alison Irvine, This Road Is Red, Luath Press, →ISBN, page 114. From the entry johnny bag
  • Johnny felt a delicious surge of energy in his tinkler.2006, Andrea D'Allasandra, House of the Screaming Clowns, page 42. From the entry tinkler
  • Johnny looks pretty good with a spit curl in front but I got the feeling I look like 'The Angel.'2002, William True, The Cow Spoke French: The Story of Sgt. William True, American Paratrooper in World War II. From the entry skin job
  • The little girls sat under the pines eating their thick mutton sandwiches and big slabs of johnny cake spread with butter.1922, Katherine Mansfield, “The Doll's House”, in Selected Stories, Oxford, published 2002, page 353. From the entry johnny cake
  • Johnny has state-of-the-art access to the Net and I've been in cyberheaven, staring at images of Sarah Bernhardt and imagining her with my greatgran.2001, Merrilee Moss, Fedora Walks, page 30. From the entry cyberheaven
  • Johnny kenned at once the coarse brute was drunk same as father was Friday nights when he got his money from the Broo.193?, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, ‘Forsaken’, Smeddum, Canongate 2001. From the entry buroo
  • Johnny, a pitcher for the Kovacs Insurance team in the Yalesville Little League overthrew his catcher during the pre-game session and hit a spectator.2000, Thomas Appenzeller, Herb Appenzeller, “Injuries to Spectators”, in Youth Sport and the Law: A Guide to Legal Issues, Durham, N.C.…. From the entry overthrow
  • Perhaps he oversimplified his life when he wrote: "All you need to be a modern johnny Appleseed is a guitar and some sticktoitiveness,"1990, David King Dunaway, How can I keep from singing: Pete Seeger, page 305. From the entry sticktoitiveness
  • Johnny imagines all manner of chrome gadgetry that he could kipe and give to his father to jazz up his ’fifty-six Ford Vicky ragtop.1987 [1984], James Ellroy, chapter 22, in Because the Night, New York: Avon, →ISBN, page 189. From the entry kipe
  • Johnny Genaro, chief of staff to Al Capone, was “put on the spot” in a crowded street in Chicago on Saturday night.1931 March 24, “AL CAPONE'S HENCHMAN MURDERED”, in Tuesday Express. From the entry henchman
  • Gone are the terms we used in our youth the frenchies, frangers, rubbers, joes, french letters, gumboots, rubbers, johnnies, parachutes and plastic fantastics -- these days they're just condoms.2002 February 7, Janine Burgess, “Armour against pleasure?”, in The Timaru Herald. From the entry franger
  • Gone are the terms we used in our youth the frenchies, frangers, rubbers, joes, french letters, gumboots, rubbers, johnnies, parachutes and plastic fantastics — these days they're just condoms.2002 February 7, Janine Burgess, “Armour against pleasure?”, in The Timaru Herald. From the entry Frenchie
  • Johnny: Well , to tell you the truth, I been ridin’ that train straight out from Tronna, and what them Pullman benches started, them bony shoulders finished.1987, Sharon Pollock, edited by Diane Bessai and Don Kerr, NeWest Plays by Women, NeWest Press, →ISBN, page 171. From the entry Tronna

Meaning of johnny

  1. noun A condom.
  2. noun An inexperienced new worker, usually an immigrant.
  3. noun A hospital gown: a gown with a back opening closed with snaps or ties, worn by hospital patients.

Full definition of johnny

Questions about johnny in a sentence

How do you use johnny in a sentence?
Johnny is used as a noun. For example: “Johnny lost a tooth, but kept it for the tooth fairy.”
What is a short sentence with johnny?
“Johnny banked some coke for me.”
What does johnny mean?
Johnny means a condom.

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