PIQUE in a Sentence

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26 example sentences for PIQUE, such as:

1. This piqued Javert's curiosity in a decided manner.
2. He was piqued to discover that he hadn't been invited.
3. Mimi had gotten over her pique at Susan's refusal to accept the job.
4. This seemed to pique general curiosity, and quite a number of people began to run.
5. Miss Van Osburgh's vague feeling of pique was struggling for appropriate expression.

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 Meanings and Examples of PIQUE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pique
 n.  sudden outburst of anger; state of vexation caused by a perceived slight or indignity
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  Miss Van Osburgh's vague feeling of pique was struggling for appropriate expression.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
2  One window of excellent clothes for men, interspersed with collars of floral pique which showed mauve daisies on a saffron ground.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  Had Hawkeye been aware of the low estimation in which the skillful Uncas held his representations, he would probably have prolonged the entertainment a little in pique.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26
4  Sallie Gardiner was absorbed in keeping her white pique dress clean and chattering with the ubiquitous Fred, who kept Beth in constant terror by his pranks.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
5  Ashamed of his momentary pique, Laurie squeezed the kind little hand, and said frankly, "I'm the one to be forgiven."
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN
6  'Tis because you are an indifferent person," said Lucy, with some pique, and laying a particular stress on those words, "that your judgment might justly have such weight with me.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
7  To believe that the letter was not the result of some momentary pique, to infer that she really gave him up to Thomasin, would have required previous knowledge of her transfiguration by that man's influence.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
8  This seemed to pique general curiosity, and quite a number of people began to run.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  These verses were not excellent--very far from it; but as it is well known, the Puritans did not pique themselves upon their poetry.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 53 CAPTIVITY: THE SECOND DAY
10  Leaving superiority out of the question, then, you must still agree to receive my orders now and then, without being piqued or hurt by the tone of command.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
11  Her relatives encouraged me; competitors piqued me; she allured me: a marriage was achieved almost before I knew where I was.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
12  Pride," observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, "is a very common failing, I believe.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
13  "Rail on, rail on at your ease, gentlemen," said Morcerf, somewhat piqued.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 40. The Breakfast.
14  Danglars was a coward, but did not wish to appear so; he was piqued at the tone which Morcerf had just assumed.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 78. We hear From Yanina.
15  This piqued Javert's curiosity in a decided manner.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
Example Sentence:
1  She showed her pique at her loss by refusing to appear with the other contestants at the end of the competition.
2  "I know something you don't know," said Lucy, trying to pique Ethel's interest.
3  Mimi had gotten over her pique at Susan's refusal to accept the job.
4  He was piqued to discover that he hadn't been invited.
5  Granny was astounded and a little piqued, I think, because it had all been arranged without her knowledge.