pappy

Example Sentences

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It wasn’t like I was on the road all the time with my pappy.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2022

And he told my pappy, just as straight as my pappy had told him, ‘Freedom is a yoke, boy. You’ll soon see.’

From The New Yorker • Jun. 3, 2019

That’s because he’s not the real player on that team; his pappy is.

From Washington Post • Jul. 2, 2018

They're such cliches, so pappy and unoriginal, that they've always washed over me, like the sound of Justin Bieber or someone reading the lottery numbers.

From The Guardian • Jul. 16, 2013

She didn’t seem to care and started singing again: “Happy, happy, happy, clap your feet, Happy, sappy, pappy, blow your nose, Biddy-boddy-bowdee, jump and jump.”

From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper