debonair

Example Sentences

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As the movie goes on, it becomes apparent that she is present mainly because she wants to meet the debonair Rodgers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

“It was a very debonair thing to do.”

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025

Here is this ostensibly brilliant, devilishly handsome, debonair man, touting his biotech voyeurism like he’s a kid showing off a painting he made in art class.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2025

Souther, the singer and songwriter who co-wrote twangy yet debonair hits for the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt that helped define the Southern California country-rock sound of the mid-1970s, has died.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024

On a trip to Chicago in 1893, short, round fireball Ida Wells got to know tall, debonair, easygoing Ferdinand Barnett as they worked together on a pamphlet calling out racial inequities.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield