Proverbial
in example sentence
James Coburn looks appropriately puzzled as the
proverbial
villain of the piece (he wants to shut the school down, and after meeting the students, any audience may come to sympathize with him).
More example sentences with word proverbial
Those machines go the
proverbial
junkyard.
So we decided to see if flies could be provoked into showing the kind of behavior that you see by the
proverbial
wasp at the picnic table, you know, the one that keeps coming back to your hamburger the more vigorously you try to swat it away, and it seems to keep getting irritated.
I never sit at my desk with the
proverbial
light bulb going off in my head.
One of the Whitopian outlooks that really hit me was a
proverbial
saying: "One black man is a delightful dinner guest; 50 black men is a ghetto."
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