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Example Sentences
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Boonbunchachoke’s strange and funny script is constructed of multiple nesting stories, like how my own vacuum pops out a pert little dustbuster that really digs into the cracks.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026
Sales were boosted by a national prime-time television ad campaign in which a disorganized young man bumps into a pert young woman at the library, knocking her Trapper to the floor.
From Washington Post • Aug. 29, 2022
Hilary Duff — forever young, forever pert, forever blond — found a home on the Disney Channel two decades ago as Lizzie McGuire, a self-possessed tween with an animated alter ego.
From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2022
Don't let its dark rosy red facade fool you: the flavor's light and tart, like strawberries mashed with a couple of citrus peels for pert bitterness.
From Salon • Jan. 23, 2022
The girl in front of him had freckled, light brown skin; inquisitive brown eyes; and a pert, round nose.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.