pelf
Example Sentences
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And for her trouble somehow ends up with the whole weird Pelf family descending on her, maskless, prompting her to flee to her father’s house with Shep.
From Washington Post • May 4, 2022
After I got the double in Game 1, they all — Hojo, Pelf, all those guys, D-Wright — they were all texting me.
From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2010
The reason this chap in the box here Made his lady friend Mrs. Van Pelf, He had a whole car-load of diamonds And he couldn’t well wear them himself!
From Why They Married by Flagg, James Montgomery
A constant hunter after sordid Pelf; Was never just to any but himself: A very Proteus in all shapes had been, And constant onely, and grown old in sin.
From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Jones, Harold Whitmore
Ah, Love! could you and I lay on the Shelf This Sorry Scheme of Ill-begotten Pelf, Would we not Shatter it to Bits, and Then Remould a System just to suit Ourself?
From The Re-echo Club by Wells, Carolyn
Vocabulary lists containing pelf
Selection Vocabulary 1, Unit 1
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Selection Vocabulary 3, Unit 1
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