junketin a sentence
- The legislator is busy this weekend on a lavish golf junket in Scotland.
- It was the usual end-of-session junket season.† (source)
- If I'm not recording or touring, then Bryn's on location or off on one of her endless press junkets.† (source)
- There were two tables of travel agents on a junket from Toronto—they thought Lenny was a Scottish comic who did impressions of the royal family.† (source)
- So Great New York Times printed: LUNAR "UNDERSECRETARY" SAYS: "FOOD BELONGS TO HUNGRY" New York Today—O'Kelly Davis, soi-disant "Colonel of the Armed Forces of Free Luna" here on a junket to stir up support for the insurgents in the F.N. Lunar colonies, said in a voluntary statement to this paper that the "Freedom from Hunger" clause in the Grand Charter applied to the Lunar grain shipments— I asked Prof how should have handled?† (source)
- Junket was made with white tablets that came out of a tube, and served with a dollop of grape jelly on the top.† (source)
- The junket for the visit by the joint Chiefs and the Select Armed Services Committee had been a nightmare to arrange.† (source)
- She and Mary Burns had decided on the outfit together the weekend before, on a shopping junket down to the city.† (source)
- She had made him chicken broth that sparkled like diamonds in the evening light, and then there would be the junket he hated, turning to water under his tongue.† (source)
- He was kicked out of the Guild ten years ago for that little junket of his with you.† (source)
- I've made you some junket, too," she said with a straight face.† (source)
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- What's left, perhaps, is golf, but I've played the game no more than a dozen times in my life, and then it was always with the same group of medical-supply wholesalers, who for several years in a row invited me on a spring junket to Myrtle Beach.† (source)
- Perversely I long for the desserts of my childhood, the desserts of war, simple and inexpensive and bland: tapioca pudding, with its gelatinous fish eyes, Jell-O caramel pudding, Junket.† (source)
- When I looked back across the precious, stately landscape of my property, it seemed I had traveled far miles to the place I was standing, as if I had gone round and round the earth in an endless junket, the broad lawn a continent, the pool a whole ocean, the house the darkened museum of a one-man civilization, whose latent history, if I could so will it, would be left always unspoken, unsung.† (source)
- Louella, I don't want junket tonight.† (source)
- Sometimes a stack of people would come there, horseback, from ten or fifteen mile around, and stay five or six days, and have such junketings round about and on the river, and dances and picnics in the woods daytimes, and balls at the house nights.† (source)
- You should cut out this junketing around and go back to the university.† (source)
- But here, in the belly of the night, the illimitable, flat, wet mud was as featureless as a dark junket.† (source)
- To get her out of the way when he was up to something he sent her to visit her cousin on the South Side, an all-day junket on the streetcars.† (source)
- Masha, pass us some junket or raspberries.† (source)
- Having eaten some junket and lighted a cigarette, he came back to the discussion.† (source)
- On one occasion recently a local aldermanic junket had been arranged to visit Philadelphia—a junket that was to last ten days.† (source)
- When I and my poor man were jined in it we kept up the junketing all the week, and drunk the parish dry, and had to borrow half a crown to begin housekeeping!† (source)
- He smiled when he saw that she took him seriously, and he thought what a chance it would afford for a possible junket of a week or two.† (source)
- Will you have some junket?† (source)
- old Eester;" shouted the well-known voice of her husband, from the plain beneath; "ar' you keeping your junkets, while we are finding you in venison and buffaloe beef?† (source)
- Lors, it's as good as a junketing to 'em when they see me wi' my pack, an' I shall niver pick up such bargains for 'em again.† (source)
- It is easy for him to talk of reparation, fresh from journeying and junketing in foreign lands, and living a life of vanity and pleasure.† (source)
- A major sea nearly unknown to the ancients, except perhaps the Carthaginians, those Dutchmen of antiquity who went along the west coasts of Europe and Africa on their commercial junkets!† (source)
- "We workfolk shall have some lordly junketing to-night," said Cainy Ball, casting forth his thoughts in a new direction.† (source)
- George, taking out his wife to a new jaunt or junket every night, was quite pleased with himself as usual, and swore he was becoming quite a domestic character.† (source)
- And a jaunt or a junket with HIM!† (source)
- Today the bards must drink and junket.† (source)
- Neighbours and friends, though bride and bridegroom wants For to supply the places at the table, You know there wants no junkets at the feast.† (source)
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