dandy

Example Sentences

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All seemed just dandy until both eagles left their nest unattended, and ravens swooped in.

From Los Angeles Times

Trotsky was a dazzling speaker and a dandy who “never quite stopped being a clever schoolboy desperate to show others how much he had learned.”

From The Wall Street Journal

I had a dandy pocketknife, and a darn good dog; that was about all a boy could hope for in those days.

From Literature

I hate the Patriots, and I hate doing this, and maybe down deep I’m thinking, given my prediction record, if I pick them they’ll lose and wouldn’t that be dandy?

From Los Angeles Times

He hit his head on the bedpost and got a dandy black eye.

From Literature