Proper in sentence

1268 examples of Proper in a sentence

Our teacher would give us an amount of measures and a time signature, and then he would speak a rhythm to us and we would have to write it down with the proper rests and notes.

It puts you into a proper relationship with reality.

If I wanted to complete a full digital reconstruction of this statue, I would need a proper camera, tripods, proper lighting, but we simply can't do that with crowdsourced images.

"[Mom] A proper Southern belle who is making peace with the fact that her only purpose in life is to tend to her husband."

Some people tell me to do it; I think, well, that's not really proper, you know, these days.

So, I mean, this picture has not even got a proper title.

He needs proper medical attention.

So one approach we’re taking is to try to design drugs that function like molecular Scotch tape, to hold the protein into its proper shape.

My mother thought that this was not very proper, so she sat with us to add propriety to this activity.

Especially these words: "There are liberals who have all the proper attitudes, but no real convictions.

Well, if I hold conservative values, for instance, I probably prefer big proper cars and small government over tiny, tiny cars and huge government.

I believe that to confront such a crisis, only art and religion can give proper answers to humanity, to mankind's deepest aspirations, and to the historic demands of our times.

Chess was used as an allegory for different social classes performing their proper roles, and the pieces were re-interpreted in their new context.

People frequently fell ill and were unable to receive proper medical care.

With a proper body position I'm able to really move forward to gain quite some distance.

When he walks into an agrodealer's shop, all he wants is certified and proper cabbage seeds that, if he were to plant them, will yield a harvest rich enough that he can pay for the school fees of his children.

Quantitative reasoning attains its proper position at the heart of what it takes to manage change where measurement is crucial.

He explains: “You must determine who ate which crystal and get each into the proper containment field before they transform.

You manage to get them all in the proper containment fields just as the crystals’ magic begins to manifest.

We do not have the basis of a proper partnership for the future, and yet, out of people’s desire for a global ethic and a global society that can be done.

We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.

So if children with anxiety don't learn the proper coping mechanisms when young, what happens to them when they grow up?

GB: Well I think we can persuade people that what is necessary for Britain's long-term interests, what is necessary for America's long-term interests, is proper engagement with the rest of the world, and taking the action that is necessary.

So, first, a small housekeeping announcement: please switch off your proper English check programs installed in your brain.

And the proper translation of "cogito ergo sum" is "I shake things up, therefore I am." (Laughter) Metaphor shakes things up, giving us everything from Shakespeare to scientific discovery in the process.

For special occasions, he would wear proper pants.

That we have today more than a billion people below the absolute poverty line, that we have more than a billion people without proper drinking water in the world, twice that number, more than two billion people without sanitation and so on, and the consequent illnesses of mothers and children, still, child mortality of more than 10 million people every year, children dying before they are five years old: The cause of this is, to a large extent, grand corruption.

Obviously, in schools, we owe it to them to make sure those 180 days of the year, from that little precious age of four, until 18, 20, 24, whatever, they need to be cooked proper, fresh food from local growers on site, OK?

There needs to be a new standard of fresh, proper food for your children, yeah?

Based on that success, the following year we did the proper mechanical design, starting from kinematics.

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