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ornery example sentences
ornery
1. He kept his men in position as they moved the ornery Guild Master to the camp’s holding area -
2. Upon returning, Penelope could see a busy Praefect making the rounds, stopping to speak to his men as he encountered them as well as the ornery physician and the Quartermaster
3. And well, it had been nearly a week since I had made it a daily therapeutic ritual of hiking up to Grandma and Grandpa’s to walk the playground of my youth and visit with those ornery old people
4. He is his mother’s favorite child (arguably), his grandfather’s ornery double (not so arguably), and the one who offers the blessing before holiday dinner
5. “Oh, yeah! I blew her brains clean out, the ornery little snot
6. The animals of the barnyard were alive with mirth and merriment, a few just as ornery as the day they were born, clucking, oinking, and bellowing, all hungry like they had never been fed
7. Our fellow humans are far more ornery and vexatious than are demons, who are relatively straightforward and aboveboard by comparison
8. It certainly helped explain why she had suddenly become so ornery
9. hand, were agitated and ornery
10. And Candace assures me they are every bit as ornery as their dad!”
11. He laughs his ornery laugh as he leaves; much like the man who sails the sea did
12. “She’s 70 years old and ornery as a wild sow
13. “I’m first in line,” said a lone, rather ornery woman, who at first had appeared to be asleep in the shade of the front steps
14. But the ornery behemoth sustained his attack, deftly passing the hammer’s handle from one beefy hand to another
15. but he liked his stallion ornery, it suited him well
16. and gaping and yawning and stretching—a mighty ornery lot
17. Sudden as winking the ornery old cretur went an to smash, and fell up against the man, and put his chin on his shoulder, and cried down his back, and says:
18. He said if we warn't prisoners it would be a very different thing, and nobody but a mean, ornery person would steal when he warn't a prisoner
19. At any given moment, though, he was as likely to be merry as ornery
20. I was exhausted and ornery after days of round-the-clock coverage, and I got a little lippy
21. I’m too stubborn and ornery to die
22. It was as if Tim had stirred up a hive of hornets with an ornery stick
