HAIRY in a Sentence

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29 example sentences for HAIRY, such as:

1. It was pretty hairy climbing down the cliff.
2. For this special meeting, don't put on your hairy overcoat.
3. Probably her hairy little Zouave was safe in Richmond this very minute.
4. And they were new, not ragged, with dirty bare flesh and hairy legs showing through.
5. Denisov hid his hairy legs under the blanket, looking with a scared face at his comrade for help.

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 Meanings and Examples of HAIRY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hairy
 a.  bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair; rough with hair
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  Probably her hairy little Zouave was safe in Richmond this very minute.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
2  And they were new, not ragged, with dirty bare flesh and hairy legs showing through.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  Certainly Will was no dirtier, no more hairy, no more lice infested than many fine gentlemen who came to Tara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
4  The contrast between the dirty, hairy old man and the four neat, fastidious ladies was as great as though he were a grizzled, vicious old watchdog and they four small kittens.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
5  About Archie's face there was an alert waiting look and his tufted, hairy old ears seemed pricked up like a lynx's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
6  Thus to the young Sappho spake the melon-venders; thus the captains to Zenobia; and in the damp cave over gnawed bones the hairy suitor thus protested to the woman advocate of matriarchy.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
7  A hand closed softly on my shoulder, and at the same moment I felt something hairy and cologne-scented brushing my face.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
8  Denisov hid his hairy legs under the blanket, looking with a scared face at his comrade for help.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I
9  Those broad, reddish hands, with hairy wrists visible from under the shirt cuffs, laid down the pack and took up a glass and a pipe that were handed him.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XIII
10  One tormenting impression did not leave him: that those broad-boned reddish hands with hairy wrists visible from under the shirt sleeves, those hands which he loved and hated, held him in their power.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XIV
11  Oh, how Rostov detested at that moment those hands with their short reddish fingers and hairy wrists, which held him in their power.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XIV
12  A deep saucer of black blood was taken from his hairy arm and only then was he able to relate what had happened to him.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVI
13  Slightly snorting and grunting, he presented now his back and now his plump hairy chest to the brush with which his valet was rubbing him down.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXVI
14  His sleeves were rolled up and his sinewy, hairy, red hands with their short fingers deftly turned the ramrod.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XV
15  By and by, when we had dined in a sumptuous manner off boiled dabs, melted butter, and potatoes, with a chop for me, a hairy man with a very good-natured face came home.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
Example Sentence:
1  For this special meeting, don't put on your hairy overcoat.
2  It was pretty hairy climbing down the cliff.