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How to use sonny in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Sonny means a familiar form of address for a boy. Example: “That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny.”

More sentences with sonny

  • That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny.From the entry class
  • Imagine showing this programme to someone currently in their teens and saying: “There you go, sonny.2020 November 6, Mike Ward, “Annie’s a punk shocker”, in Daily Express, page 39. From the entry Generation Zedder
  • “Sonny Carson got more crack houses closed than the entire Police Department,” Mr.2007 May 31, Ray Rivera, “Council Rejects Street Name for Black Activist”, in New York Times. From the entry premeeting
  • Sonny asked, "Will you see good again out of that swole eye?"2006, Daniel Woodrell, Winter's Bone: A Novel, New York, N.Y.; Boston, M.A.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 151. From the entry swole
  • Sonny was just a dirty-looking old man, a broken-down old man.2003, Gary Weiss, Born to Steal: When the Mafia Hit Wall Street, New York: Warner Books, page 237. From the entry broken-down valise
  • Don't get uppish with me, sonny Jim: you're as dead as he is.1978, Hugh Leonard, Da: A Comedy in Two Acts. From the entry sonny Jim
  • After walking a ways, Jurgis met a little ragamuffin whom he hailed: "Hey, sonny!"1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter XVIII, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906…. From the entry ragamuffin
  • Sonny came round to childsit today. (Not babysit.2005 June 30, Malorie Blackman, “Callie Rose is 11”, in Checkmate (Noughts & Crosses; 3), London: Corgi Books, published 2006, →ISBN, page…. From the entry thank you very much
  • Here, sonny, want to see my meat puppet?1990, Matthew J. Costello, Midsummer, page 176. From the entry meat puppet
  • Sonny had removed his jacket and collared shirt and sat in his A-shirt and trousers with a Lucky Strike behind his ear.2019, Dan Cushman, Brian Townsley, Frederick Nebel, Black Mass (Spring 2018). From the entry A-shirt
  • Sonny Assu is a Ligwildaxw Kwakwaka’wakw contemporary artist known for combining traditional visual elements of his Northwest Coast heritage with emblems of colonialism and Western consumer culture.2025, “Sonny Assu”, in Heritage House Publishing. From the entry Ligwildaxw

Meaning of sonny

  1. noun A familiar form of address for a boy.
  2. noun Form of address to a boy or man, to express contempt, warning etc.

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Questions about sonny in a sentence

How do you use sonny in a sentence?
Sonny is used as a noun. For example: “That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny.”
What is a short sentence with sonny?
“Here, sonny, want to see my meat puppet?”
What does sonny mean?
Sonny means a familiar form of address for a boy.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sonny (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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