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How to use haughtily in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word haughtily? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
With great dignity, she sits and carefully grooms herself, looking at me haughtily.
Waiters with tables to fill are heartily welcoming instead of haughtily aloof.
A large evergreen tree sat haughtily in one corner as a cluster of Raleigh students adorned it with ornaments, baubles and hand-made trinkets.
He sniffed haughtily, holding open the door for them and watching as they shuffled past.
The woman wearing said fake fur turned around quickly, shot Mom a deadly look, and then haughtily turned back around and ignored her.
When quite modest health care reforms were introduced by New Labour in England, Scottish Labour was haughtily dismissive of them.
She looked haughtily at me for a second and turned away, resuming her conversation.
He is also immature, vain, haughtily cocksure in his perception of the world and ripe for certain lessons, both emotional and intellectual.
They only wanted to delay the war so they could have a say in the war councils, which Bush haughtily denied them.
From the dissolution of feudal ties emerge squabbling subjects nursing secret grievances, haughtily guarding caste privileges, or jealously policing petty distinctions.
The United States, standing haughtily and defiant before God, is proof of that pride.
Isn't that precisely what we haughtily advised the Kosovans and the Serbs to do?
Both groups of banks, private and public, are not in confrontation on a market but ignore one another haughtily.
Cecily was announced to Lady Read who received them haughtily with icy dignity.
Cameron calls him unacceptable and illegitimate, haughtily scorning Juncker's drive to become the next head of the EU executive in Brussels.
That may tempt the big private-equity groups into the middle market, which they haughtily ignored when mega-deals were easy.
He haughtily demanded the best table, even though people looked and wondered who he was.
Their earth-coloured petticoats puff out haughtily, and one would say that the spirit of these women, who seem like olive-tree trunks, has not aged.
Examples from Classical Literature
He turned on his heel and stalked haughtily in the direction of the boat train.
Then haughtily he demanded to know in his turn the name of their aggressor.
Rebuffed by the janitors, Pinchas haughtily asked for Goldwater.
A foul tip caught, another wide one haughtily ignored, a strike.
The Chancellor took it haughtily, drank it off thoughtfully, smiled benevolently on the happy waiter as he set down the empty glass, and began.
Mary raised her head, haughtily, with a gesture of high disdain.
It was hardly possible to look at the gentleman's gentleman, so very haughtily did he stand in the doorway.
The headman replied haughtily to salam's questions and strode away.
Miss finner tilted her nose skyward and drew herself up haughtily.
He was not tall, but he carried his head so haughtily that he looked a commanding figure, and there was something daring and challenging in his eyes.
Had she not added Pooh I might have spared her, but as it was I raised the blotting-pad rather haughtily and presented her with the sheet beneath it.
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