more proper
Example Sentences
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Like Mr Barnes, Mr Lewis says getting more proper truck stops is a "big thing" for all drivers.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2024
But life there is pictured, in perhaps too clear a contrast to her more proper existence up the hill, as rich and warm, messy and honest, more spiritual than intellectual and attractively dangerous.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2023
But what makes it more proper than the American style, i.e. eating with tines facing upward, and switching your fork from the left hand to the right once you've cut your food?
From Salon • Nov. 24, 2022
They were a holdover from more proper and formal eras, but were awkward and kinda creepy and easily jettisoned, like the Nazi heel click.
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2021
Here the Continental Army had suffered through a winter of their own, and the vast, stark, frozen desolation itself seemed a more proper monument than statues and stones.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
