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How to use lacy in a sentence

14 example sentences · adjective

Lacy means made of lace or decorated with it. Example: “She was wearing bikini briefs that were neither colorful nor lacy.”

More sentences with lacy

  • She was wearing bikini briefs that were neither colorful nor lacy.1986, Anna James, The Reluctant Swan, page 132. From the entry bikini briefs
  • Lacy in her own mind, had ever been admitted to this room.1934, Katharine Tynan, The house of dreams. From the entry wonder
  • She was wearing a stiff maroon saree and as she talked, her lacy black bra peek-a-booed from under her blouse.2015, SJ Sindu, “Husband Hunting”, in Rosalie Morales Kearns, editor, The Female Complaint: Tales of Unruly Women, Albany, N.Y.: Shade…. From the entry peek-a-boo
  • Loose black cotton pants and a flowing purple top with those wide sleeves and a low-cut, lacy neck.2008, Caitlin Kittredge, Night Life (Nocturne City; 1), New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry Ren faire
  • And then there’s Roberta, who seems like a typical meido (maid) character until she pulls out machine guns from her lacy uniform!2008 October 12, Kitty Sensei, “Playing pirate”, in Malaysia Star. From the entry meido
  • Lacy couldn’t spell good but in big pencil letters he wrote that he had to go downtown and would be back before suppertime.2006, Charles Davis, Angel’s Rest, Don Mills, Ont.: MIRA Books, →ISBN, page 143. From the entry suppertime
  • Lacy reported that in the Hokchiang (Futsing) District Christians were driven from their homes, their fields pillaged, fruit trees destroyed, and houses razed.1957, Wade Crawford Barclay, The Methodist Episcopal Church, 1845-1939, volume 3, New York: Board of Missions of The Methodist Church…. From the entry Hokchiang
  • Mom's turned my childhood bedroom into a Woolfish “Writing Room.” It's packed with a new lacy daybed, an army of cushions, a rich wood desk, a computer.2013, Laura Gray-Rosendale, College Girl: A Memoir, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 67. From the entry Woolfish
  • The ornate four-poster bed is made up in lacy fabric, there are towels in the bathroom, along with full bottles of hand wash and body lotion.2011, Kate Harrison, “Grazia”, in The Secret Shopper Affair, London: Orion Books, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry hand wash
  • For Woolworth, Gilbert designed a house that was similar, but lacier at the roof line, with intricate copper roof cresting and crocketed chimneys, and elaborately decorated dormers.2009 May 17, Christopher Gray, “The Dime Store Tycoon’s Kingdom”, in New York Times. From the entry crocketed
  • The robe gaps open at the waist, breasts spilling out of a lacy bra that looks like she might have had it since her college days.2007 July [2006], Jeanne C. Stein, Blood Drive (Anna Strong; 2), →ISBN, page 60. From the entry gap
  • The bud vase lay on its side near the bush; a lacy fanwork of roots had spread out over the tabletop, following the path of the spilled water.2006, Kage Baker, The Machine's Child, Tor, published 2007, →ISBN, page 123. From the entry fanwork
  • Delicate fingers of frost reached up from the floor and extended down from the ceiling; the bottles were covered with a lacy webwork so fine that it looked like cobwebs.2003, Ben Jones, chapter XIII, in The Rope Eater, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 185. From the entry webwork
  • I'm riddled at the hips and knees, roundsided as parentheses since my shrunken spine has known osteoporosis and my extremities have shriveled into lacy filigrees, breakable as glass on stone.1997, The American Scholar - Volume 66, page 120. From the entry roundsided

Meaning of lacy

  1. adjective Made of lace or decorated with it.
  2. adjective Looking like lace.

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Questions about lacy in a sentence

How do you use lacy in a sentence?
Lacy is used as an adjective. For example: “She was wearing bikini briefs that were neither colorful nor lacy.”
What is a short sentence with lacy?
“She was wearing bikini briefs that were neither colorful nor lacy.”
What does lacy mean?
Lacy means made of lace or decorated with it.

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