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How to use racy in a sentence

20 example sentences · adjective

Racy means mildly risqué. Example: “She wore a racy dress that was just barely appropriate for the occasion.”

Examples of racy by meaning

adjectiveMildly risqué.

  • She wore a racy dress that was just barely appropriate for the occasion.
  • a racy story
  • “Well, I did have two boyfriends, which was racy at the time,” she says now.2021 March 27, Simon Hattenstone, quoting Charlotte Rampling, “Charlotte Rampling: ‘I am prickly. People who are prickly can’t be hurt any...

adjectiveHaving a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil.

  • a racy wine

adjectiveInvolving a data race or a race condition.

  • We evaluate the automatic fence insertion procedure by running our tool on a number of different benchmarks containing racy code.2016, Elvira Albert, Ivan Lanese, Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems

More sentences with racy

  • The Victoria's Secret ad's racy image generated strong stopping power ratings.From the entry stopping power
  • Just 22% of men in the same age bracket admitted sending the racy shots, known as "pelfies".2018 February 16, Alexander Brown, “Willy pics on the rise: Almost half young women get unwanted snaps”, in Daily Star. From the entry pelfie
  • We met online, exchanged pics, exchanged fantasies (mostly mine), exchanged racy pics (mostly hers), chatted, vidchatted.2013 April 9, Ska Hammer, “How I Came to Have My Own Panties”, in Crasstalk, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2018. From the entry vidchat
  • Hasluck tells the story at a rapid pace and with racy charm.1980, New Statesman. From the entry from the hip
  • But the play's snatches of racy prose do not offset its stretches of lumpish playwriting.1951 March 5, “New Plays in Manhattan”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2023. From the entry lumpish
  • It was racy and insolent with heliotrope; he hurled it to the floor.1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Furnished Room”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips &…. From the entry heliotrope
  • The pair have dressed up in skimpy Mrs Santa Claus lingerie - accessorised by some rather racy Christmas stockings.2010 December 24, Jody Thompson, “A very Kerry Christmas! Kerry Katona and Only Way Is Essex star Amy Childs dress up as sexy Mrs Santas”…. From the entry Mrs Santa
  • Being a Plymouth girl, I had heard plenty of racy stories about navy chaps, or fishheads as we called you.2009, Dawn French, Dear Fatty, page 180. From the entry fishhead
  • Just as to be truly Irish you had to be Catholic, you also had to be racy of the soil.2003 January 7, Fintan O'Toole, “Farm demo is simply anti-change”, in The Irish Times. From the entry racy of the soil
  • The other had the most run-of-the-mill news which make some of my recent run-of-the-mill columns appear like the raciest escapist fare.1971 November 30, Martin Lapidus, “Class Notes: 62”, in Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 72, page 26. From the entry run-of-the-mill
  • "New and improved" is a term of opprobrium in White Flower's catalog, a sarcastic jibe at the garden world's racier, hypier outfits.2007, Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education, Open Road + Grove/Atlantic, →ISBN, page 208. From the entry hypey
  • Seneca's literary contemporary, Petronius, reflected the " seamy " side of city life by representing Roman "counterculture" in his racy and imaginative farce the Satyricon.2005, Robert B. Kebric, Roman People, McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. From the entry counterculture
  • I thought the whole tale would shortly be served up in racy pasquinade—but Catherine, who might have said anything, didn't say a word.1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter IX, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 196. From the entry pasquinade
  • In September, Brooks Brothers, home of the baggy boxer, will start selling Lycra bikini briefs and other, racier styles, though the labels are, for now, still on the inside.1994 August 14, Dan Shaw, “Unmentinables? No More”, in The New York Times, section 1, page 49. From the entry bikini briefs
  • As danger thickened his jaunty manner would increase, his speech become more racy, his cold eyes glitter into ardent life, and his Don Quixote moustache bristle with joyous excitement.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry Don Quixote

Meaning of racy

  1. adjective Mildly risqué.
  2. adjective Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil.
  3. adjective Exciting to the mind by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively.

Full definition of racy

Questions about racy in a sentence

How do you use racy in a sentence?
Racy is used as an adjective. For example: “She wore a racy dress that was just barely appropriate for the occasion.”
What is a short sentence with racy?
“a racy story”
What does racy mean?
Racy means mildly risqué.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: racy (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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