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

Spindly, with a pappy interior, a tendency towards floppiness and not a trace of skin.

From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2012

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