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    Use "quaint" in a sentence

    quaint example sentences

    quaint


    1. I've heard it's quaint


    2. And they weren’t wearing quaint, traditional


    3. edges with rivets, very quaint, even the wood


    4. It had turned out to be a second honeymoon, not in Paris, but in the small, quaint beauty


    5. “Why? Do you need some more quaint hill talk to add to your collection? I haven’t given you enough to keep the office entertained for a while?”


    6. Todos Santos was then a quaint village up the Pacific coast from Cabo San Lucas


    7. A quaint custom


    8. This cleansing has reduced the death-rate to regular proportions, yellow fever during the past summer has been unprecedentedly scarce, and when the projected canal is cut, to flush out the vast cesspool, Havana harbour, the city, quaint and beautiful despite the dirt, will become a Mecca for winter tourists


    9. with its roaring, crackling logs, in her quaint, short-waisted dress,


    10. "Just love your little old country and its quaint traditions," he said

    11. In the Orosi Valley, a quaint colonial area famous for its gourmet quality coffee, he bought a beautiful farm, rich in volcanic soil and there, raised flowers for export to the US and Europe


    12. She described a quaint little town tucked away in an almost inaccessible corner of the peninsula that offered ocean, jungle and waterfalls cascading from seaside cliffs


    13. “I could never figure out some of your quaint colloquial expressions


    14. It was a bit of a laugh actually, realising that all those quaint depictions of evil demons were actually true, but it wasn’t as funny when that demon stood twelve feet tall, with an impossibly inhuman but overly developed physique, the stink of rotten eggs and stale blood emanating from him reaching hundreds of feet away, and a very real, shiny, and quite sharp-looking set of serrated bone claws of the sort that made visceral death a most literal notion


    15. I think of it as quaint


    16. Late afternoon found them, dirty and exhausted, in quaint and friendly Villa de San Francisco, already invitingly cool in the shadow of a mountain


    17. This was not the quaint town he remembered


    18. around to where there was a quaint little bar, where a skinny white man was


    19. town home was in a small quaint close-knit community


    20. A maple-tree grew beside it with a curiously gnarled and twisted trunk, creeping along the ground for a little way before shooting up into the air, and so forming a quaint seat; and September had flung a scarf of pale smoke-blue asters around the hollow

    21. She would be careful not to suggest there was anything jaded or prurient in her son’s fixation with this quaint Lithuanian


    22. armchairs and a pair of quaint dining tables


    23. George was sitting in the living room watching television, her house was quaint, posh but not as modern or luxurious as George’s appartment


    24. amazed at the dozens and dozens of quaint little houses


    25. They surrounded the western side of the quaint little town with its circular pattern, giving the appearance of a large animal about to devour some small prey


    26. They surrounded the western side of the quaint little town with its


    27. His wavy brown hair, hazel brown eyes and Hollywood smile not to mention his quaint Italian accent made the other Truth Seekers, mainly those of the female persuasion, rush to his assistance when he needed help in the game


    28. As I searched for a limb, it almost seemed that the man and his quaint wagon pulled by a wild animal, were all part of a child’s folktale and I was somehow being drawn into it


    29. Holland had always appealed to me, with its cosy homes and quaint shopping centres


    30. With that I"ll end my report of the quaint

    31. account of the equally quaint economy of the


    32. With that I’ll end my report of the quaint


    33. Apart from the study of Philosophy—is that quaint subject still taught?—organised religions have more-or-less cornered the market


    34. “Too quaint; let’s at least get a name somewhat modern


    35. It had quaint shops with old-fashioned frontages that were full of character


    36. It had been snowing and the town looked amazing with the castle, the cobbled streets and the quaint old shop windows clad in white


    37. This guy was really quaint in an old fashioned way but she felt drawn to


    38. The town of Windsor was quaint, charming and historical


    39. "Instead, to move this quaint conversation to a higher level, I will ask what is it that you need to know?"


    40. The house, set in a sparsely populated area, was a solid place build of small river rocks and brick, with small, quaint windows and a large enclosed sundeck at the side

    41. Anna’s place turned out to be a quaint garret perched above the rooftops


    42. The quaint pension where they had spent their honeymoon, occasionally venturing out to see the sights, but more often than not, spending time lying in each other's arms


    43. Each had a small garden with quaint wooden fences, various sheds and outhouses cluttered the yards, and all had stacks of logs neatly lined up and protected from the snow by lean-tos


    44. It showed three boys standing in a dusty street, tall houses with quaint balconies protected by lattice


    45. disturbance of the staff spread out across the still surface of the quaint lake


    46. The wooden houses, quaint and brown


    47. There is a quaint yet shoddy little house of bricks


    48. The quaint peak of a pitched roof came into view over the tips of the emerald leaves of the trees, much the way a steeple would in the midst of a charming town


    49. She stared into her daughter’s eyes and saw the quaint, hopeful gaze of her own youth


    50. You do speak Italian with a rather quaint accent from the North, Captain














































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    Synonyms for "quaint"

    quaint old-time olde worlde antiquated baroque antique ancient archaic charming picturesque curious extraordinary odd strange uncommon unique

    "quaint" definitions

    strange in an interesting or pleasing way


    very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance


    attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)