How to Use dandy in a Sentence

dandy

1 of 2 noun
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  • That was a dandy of a game.
  • Keep it safe and pack it along in this dandy of a case.
    — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The first large Baignoire was a model for men, for dandies.
    — Jill Newman, Town & Country, 1 Oct. 2019
  • But this year, Kansas State has a dandy of a running back in freshman Deuce Vaughn.
    — Brice Paterik, Dallas News, 30 Sep. 2020
  • The weekend is a dandy, though, with clearing skies and highs in the 50s — pretty typical for March.
    — David Streit, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Foles passed for 352 yards on Sunday vs. the Vikings, including a dandy of a flea-flicker that put the game out of reach in the second half.
    — Detroit Free Press, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The champions and runners-up in the Western Conference from last year square off in what's sure to be a dandy of a match.
    — Briar Napier, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2020
  • But with young black dandies, there’s also a hip-hop element.
    — Errin Haines Whack, The Seattle Times, 4 June 2017
  • His style is hard to pin down, often walking the line between luxe-mallrat and rocker-dandy.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Viard also dabbled in men’s styles with menswear jackets and dandy-like British dressing gowns.
    — Thomas Adamson, ajc, 7 Mar. 2023
  • In other words, no jet-setting dandy's wardrobe would be complete without it!
    — Craig Montague, Town & Country, 22 July 2014
  • With each character trait that was added, the image of Wags as a dandy of the Wall Street underworld came into focus.
    — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Into the Night B-2 pilots make fighter pilots look like dandies.
    — William Langewiesche, The Atlantic, 21 June 2018
  • This British painter’s canvases of black dancers and dandies are not strictly portraits, but fictions invented by the artist that have the ring of truth.
    — New York Times, 31 Aug. 2017
  • This British painter’s canvases of black dancers and dandies are not strictly portraits, but fictions invented by the artist that have the ring of truth.
    — New York Times, 18 May 2017
  • Griffin points to 1953's Peter Pan, which portrayed Captain Hook as a prissy dandy who, well, preys on young boys.
    — Nico Lang, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Mar. 2017
  • The beard is the most common accessory, often a graying one: These dandies range in age from early 20s to 60s and beyond.
    — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2019
  • Meanwhile, Ryan Colbert is the straw that stirs the mystery as a devious dandy in the first play before becoming a wide-eyed med-tech nerd in the second.
    — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 20 July 2019
  • Wu’s pink knit cardigan and matching T-shirt were a striking combination that stood out even among the season’s front row dandies.
    — Vogue, 20 June 2019
  • Men wore leopard print, too: The late-18th-century British macaroni dandies, as in Yankee Doodle, were fond of it.
    — Nancy MacDonell, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2018
  • Rich and his staff are gearing up for two dandies at the end of this month, once again thrusting his Rich Harvest Farms golf course and the greater Aurora area onto the sport's national stage.
    — Rick Armstrong, Aurora Beacon-News, 29 Apr. 2017
  • Last night, dappers and dandies gathered at—where else?—. Jazz and chatter filled the legendary shop as editors, models, and men-about-town toasted the opening of Bergdorf’s Bar.
    — Ian Malone, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2020
  • In a way, this is throwback style: During the Renaissance, lace shirts were a staple for male dandies, and pink was a masculine color in the 1920s well before Barbie took it over.
    — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2019
  • The trailer for the novel presents the story in all of its brightly colored glory, with the Fab Four appearing as impish dandies and the frames filled to overflowing with Easter eggs that will delight the band's fans.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 23 May 2018
  • In Abercrombie’s fiction, the shining hero on horseback may be the most wretched cretin of them all, while the dandy of a prince, despised by his own people, is the one person with real courage and decency.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2021
  • The female dandy was a recurring trope in Westwood’s work, which at heart, was a consideration of Englishness.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Young people of color, young Asian men who are wildly open to the avant-garde, new dandies who refuse to be stereotyped as belonging to any class—the entire choir of voices who are infinitely expanding the sense of what gender identity is.
    — Vogue, 22 Jan. 2019
  • A decade later, fashion bloggers were ascendant, abandoning artful focus and giving sidewalk dandies a flicker of fame.
    — Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 1 June 2018
  • He is known for being Francis Mallmann, the Patagonian dandy who can put together a royal repast in a clearing in the forest, using little more than a few sticks tied together and a smoldering flame surrounded by stones.
    — João Canziani, Esquire, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The collected edition of Jünger’s interwar theorizing runs to nearly one thousand pages, and gives the impression less of an engaged political writer with a taste for dandyism than a dandy with a taste for politics.
    — Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
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dandy

2 of 2 adjective
  • We thought something was wrong, but he said everything was just fine and dandy.
  • At the end of the day about 50 dandy perch were taken ashore by the group.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2022
  • In 1994, though, R. Crumb turned the dandy into a punk in Times Square.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Fine and dandy, but by the way, what are you being paid to tell us that?
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The Quest is a four-piece dandy that packs well and casts even better.
    — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Take, for instance, the dandy boys at the Palomo Spain show.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2018
  • That's all fine and dandy, but the vets still have plenty of tread left on their tires.
    — Peter Dawson, star-telegram, 5 Apr. 2018
  • That’s all fine and dandy until the touchscreen breaks.
    — Roberto Baldwin, Car and Driver, 24 June 2020
  • The profile of the man here echoes the dandy on our first cover, Eustace Tilley.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
  • The first game on the tournament slate is also a dandy.
    — Briar Napier, azcentral, 16 June 2020
  • That’s all fine and dandy, but Rippon would like us to know the condoms aren’t that great.
    — Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 12 Feb. 2018
  • And that's all fine and dandy, but then Miley shared her new feelings on the genre.
    — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 5 May 2017
  • Golden Nest makes dandy corned beef hash, as a main dish ($15, with eggs) or a side ($5).
    — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Dec. 2021
  • And just like that, everything was all fine and dandy again.
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Here's a handy dandy guide to the 14 people who will help pick the Next In Fashion winner.
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Odds are, though, Campbell will return and be fine and dandy.
    — Eric Bolin, ajc, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Here’s a handy-dandy A-Z (or A-W) guide to the most important and their comics origins.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2022
  • Meanwhile, the teen pulls out their handy dandy smartphone.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Sidney Crosby had a goal and a dandy assist to set up Kessel for a goal.
    — Kevin Allen, USA TODAY, 21 May 2017
  • Now our thug president says all that’s fine and dandy with him.
    — Chuck Plunkett, The Denver Post, 4 Feb. 2017
  • This is the handy-dandy go to for recognizing random songs in the street.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2017
  • To help choose your color, follow this handy-dandy guide.
    — Samantha Leal, Marie Claire, 26 Aug. 2015
  • The walleye runs on the Sandusky and Maumee rivers are being replaced by a dandy white bass run right now.
    — cleveland.com, 11 May 2018
  • But his last pitch of that inning was a dandy, striking out Corey Seager.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Oct. 2021
  • With his twangy-dandy personal style, Stuart looked the part too.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 22 Jan. 2022
  • That’s fine and dandy and the dinner is always fantastic.
    — Rasputin Todd, The Enquirer, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The 4-mile round-trip hike through woods is mostly flat and takes you to several dandy overlooks.
    — Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 11 June 2020
  • Texas Shore up the defense, the Tom Herman’s third season in control of this program could be a dandy.
    — Randy Peterson, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Canned seltzers are nice and wine is dandy but most cans don’t contain anything close to a real cocktail.
    — Alissa Fitzgerald, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Even tennis courts and the very rooftops on our homes are oftentimes reinforced or entirely composed of some quite handy dandy asphalt.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021

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