DEBONAIR in a Sentence

Learn DEBONAIR from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for DEBONAIR, such as:

1. She could not bear to see him in tatters, working, her debonaire immaculate Ashley.
2. He no longer looked the debonaire Ashley who had caught her fancy so many years before.
3. The debonair youth was liked by all who met him, because of his cheerful and obliging manner.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Search Sentence
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of DEBONAIR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
debonair
 a.  friendly; of good appearance and manners; graceful
Classic Sentence:
1  His inexplicable debts were a byword in his circle; he was a debonair young man.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
2  His dress was as debonaire as if he were going to a ball, well-tailored white linen coat and trousers, embroidered gray watered-silk waistcoat and a hint of ruffle on his shirt bosom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  She could not bear to see him in tatters, working, her debonaire immaculate Ashley.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
4  He no longer looked the debonaire Ashley who had caught her fancy so many years before.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
Example Sentence:
1  The debonair youth was liked by all who met him, because of his cheerful and obliging manner.