preen

How To Use preen In A Sentence

• In one hut he roomed with a resident tarantula and things that "sang, copulated, stank, ate each other, whirred, preened, and glowed. From Guyana to Guiana
• Not that he is preening: he is careless about his blond good looks, a scruffy hipster beard giving maturity to his rather angelic face. Times, Sunday Times
• Of course, it's not all about the image and the looks (except that, in the case of this particular preening bunch of fops in their heyday, it was almost entirely about the image and the looks).
• Beach boys and babes stretch and preen and wait to catch the next, best wave.
• Yet Pétain was no such thing; he was a lifelong soldier and a genuine war hero, rather than some preening sham in jackboots.
• In a typical moment, Blanche, the vain Southern belle played by Rue McClanahan, preens, "One thing I know for sure, I have not lost my hourglass figure. Slate Magazine
• No use prinking me mustache, the thing is preened to death. At Swim, Two Boys
• As students primp and preen to wow their favorite colleges, there's one characteristic they can't control: their race.
• If a painfully hip novel set in the European fashion industry didn't contain the requisite amount of preening egomania, airy-fairy posturing and general preposterousness, you would probably ask for your money back.
• He was there last week, preening himself, powerful and proud as ever, but unmistakably a man who had overstayed his welcome.