Sentence Examples

1. So damn difficult to save and then all at once it begins to slip away, right through the proverbial fingers.
2. I had dipped my toes in the proverbial European pond over the course of several college backpacking trips and now wanted to experience living there.
3. And so we wait, fucking his proverbial mother, meaning no disrespect to Mrs Gorovich.
4. Hell would need to do the proverbial freeze before he would share exactly what had been going on, Cam decided.
5. It is even at the present day proverbial to calculate the number of acres of roofing, the restoration of which would, in our age, be the ruin of fortunes cramped and narrowed as the epoch itself.
6. The security guards hurried ahead of me, like I was the proverbial devil on their heels.
7. While, in the pursuit of their daring plans of annoyance, the restless enterprise of the French even attempted the distant and difficult gorges of the Alleghany, it may easily be imagined that their proverbial acuteness would not overlook the natural advantages of the district we have just described.
8. Born in the neighborhood of Arles, she had shared in the beauty for which its women are proverbial but that beauty had gradually withered beneath the devastating influence of the slow fever so prevalent among dwellers by the ponds of Aiguemortes and the marshes of Camargue.
9. As I took another step onto the little beach, a stab of fear went through me like the proverbial knife.
10. And if a human was going up against the fae, choosing a non-iron weapon would be like intentionally bringing a knife to the proverbial gunfight.