QUAINT in a Sentence

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26 example sentences for QUAINT, such as:

1. Smoke drifted lazily from a multitude of quaint chimneys.
2. He is so quaint that I am determined to understand him as well as I can.
3. 'Yes, I'm glad I went, and such a quaint dear cheeky baby, Clifford,' said Connie.
4. His long luxuriant hair was trained to flow in quaint tresses down his richly furred cloak.
5. The designs, which include flowers in quaint pale colors, give the notes a modern, clean look.

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 Meanings and Examples of QUAINT
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quaint
 a.  odd; old-fashioned; picturesque; unfamiliar or unusual in character
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  "Rather quaint," said Utterson.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
2  "It is, as you say, rather quaint," returned Guest.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
3  His long luxuriant hair was trained to flow in quaint tresses down his richly furred cloak.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  'Yes, I'm glad I went, and such a quaint dear cheeky baby, Clifford,' said Connie.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
5  Those whom Nature had depicted as merely quaint became grotesque, the grotesque became preternatural; for all was in extremity.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
6  Eustacia, though living within two miles of the place, had never seen the interior of this quaint old habitation.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight
7  A minute later we were all seated in a comfortable landau, and were rattling through the quaint old Devonshire city.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
8  He loved her pertness, her high spirits and the quaint sweet manner she had of showing her love for him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
9  I liked Nina, too; she was so quaint and unexpected, and her eyes were lovely; but I often wanted to shake her.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: III
10  They all went together up to the quaint little Gothic church of Our Lady of Lourdes, gleaming all brown and yellow with paint in the sun's glare.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XII
11  Smoke drifted lazily from a multitude of quaint chimneys.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
12  Then I began to notice that there were some quaint little specks floating in the rays of the moonlight.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
13  He is so quaint that I am determined to understand him as well as I can.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
14  And it's so quaint, and gives such a smart emphasis to things that are not in themselves very witty.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
15  Brown, soft-eyed children ran out from the quaint stone hovels to offer nosegays, or bunches of oranges still on the bough.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
Example Sentence:
1  The designs, which include flowers in quaint pale colors, give the notes a modern, clean look.
2  Ranged on benches down the sides of the room, the eighty girls sat motionless and erect; a quaint assemblage they appeared, all with plain locks combed from their faces, not a curl visible.