Sample Sentences forquaint (editor-reviewed)
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We stayed in a quaint town.quaint = unusual in an interesting or pleasing way
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Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies. (source)
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Limmershin is a very quaint little bird, but he knows how to tell the truth. (source)
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They have a quaint old-fashioned custom in this country, Maria: they get married here before the wedding night. (source)
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They come to see the last day of the quaint little Spanish fiesta... . (source)
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He listened eagerly to the old woman's quaint talk, (source)
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But always afterwards on occasions of ceremony, he wore that quaint old French sword of the commodore's. (source)quaint = unusual in an interesting or pleasing way
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I saw the bed before I saw him; it dominated the room with its mahogany wood, its quaintly flowered quilt and pillows out of place in that setting.† (source)
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And the letter concluded, with quaintness of phrase— I am compelled by the Annual meeting to congratulate you with this matter, and to express considerable thanks to you for all the time you have been spending with us, and for the presents you have been giving the Club.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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I'm worn out, thinking about her, and watching her lips and her teeth and her tongue, not to mention her soul, which is the quaintest of the lot.† (source)
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Flossy catkins of the later kinds, fern-sprouts like bishops' croziers, the square-headed moschatel, the odd cuckoo-pint,—like an apoplectic saint in a niche of malachite,—snow-white ladies'—smocks, the toothwort, approximating to human flesh, the enchanter's night-shade, and the black-petaled doleful-bells, were among the quainter objects of the vegetable world in and about Weatherbury at this teeming time;† (source)
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It was one of Caleb's quaintnesses, that in his difficulty of finding speech for his thought, he caught, as it were, snatches of diction which he associated with various points of view or states of mind; and whenever he had a feeling of awe, he was haunted by a sense of Biblical phraseology, though he could hardly have given a strict quotation.† (source)
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But I was a gunter, so I didn't think of them as quaint low-res antiques.† (source)
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But in the end, someone always has to have his or her neck popped, as you so quaintly put it.† (source)
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He had a sort of self-contained quaintness and rough humor impossible to describe; a certain cynical earnestness that puzzled one.† (source)
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He spoke in Russian, of which Jurgis knew some; he spoke it with the quaintest of baby accents—and every word of it brought back to Jurgis some word of his own dead little one, and stabbed him like a knife.† (source)
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