How To Use Titivate In A Sentence
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Wigs for the dolls are imported ready styled, but of course they can be titivated to suit and the long wigs can be plaited.
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The word titivate apparently was derived from tidy with a quasi-Latin suffix added.
Word Fugitives
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This floral extravaganza, splashed across the green canvas of a meadow, has been shaped and coloured, magnified and titivated by the past choices made by animal eyes: bee eyes, butterfly eyes, hoverfly eyes.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
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Then on the Saturday night I went to bed very early as I knew realistically I needed to get up at 6am to allow time to titivate myself to get down to Selfridges on time.
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It was nice to get home in the daylight, and have time to titivate the garden before tea.
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titivate the child
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The short-trousered one has, in a glittering foreign service career so far, angered India, gravely insulted the Poles and apparently sexually titivated the wife of Bill Clinton, another man with banana syndrome. barbara
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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Eventually it would have notes, photos, and cards wedged into its frame to keep me company while I titivated myself before the show.
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If we're recovering furniture, go for a sensible (no, it's not a dirty word) hard-wearing fabric and titivate the look with cushions.
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If we're recovering furniture, go for a sensible (no, it's not a dirty word) hard-wearing fabric and titivate the look with cushions.
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Speakers' Corner has recently been titivated to look more like a garden and it must be a concern that this sacred spot will be lost to us because of a bunch of commercially minded, gentrifying bureaucrats and some simpering talk about the kiddies' Christmas outing.
Speakers' Corner tradition is under threat
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This floral extravaganza, splashed across the green canvas of a meadow, has been shaped and coloured, magnified and titivated by the past choices made by animal eyes: bee eyes, butterfly eyes, hoverfly eyes.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
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Improbably, the result was worth it: The titivated Jumbo was so lifelike that he looked ready to charge at spectators—and, presumably, he still would, had his artificial hide not caught fire and burned him to a crisp in 1972.
Wildlife Without Life
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He was reluctantly taking his turn on the family egg while Mrs. Daisy stretched and titivated herself after her domestic labours.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 19, 1919
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Oh! I did not do it by halves; I titivated myself up a bit, and went out and sold my spoons and forks and buckles for six hundred francs; then I went to old Daddy Gobseck, and sold a years interest in my annuity for four hundred francs down.
Paras. 1500–1599
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In the meantime, the review, a fine piece, primps and titivates my fancy, in much the same way that a sorbet readies the palate before the main course arrives.
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In this discussion, attempt is devoted to discern the political symbolism he should now titivate himself with in the light of fulfilling the presidential rite of passage.
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Hudson, nodding at the little pile he had left on her desk while she titivated herself for her own dinner.
Two Weeks To Remember
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She manicured her hands, titivated her hair, scented her eyebrows, smoothed her lips, put on no rouge, and the merest dusting of powder, save where the seaside sun had stained her neck.
Swan Song
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If we're recovering furniture, go for a sensible (no, it's not a dirty word) hard-wearing fabric and titivate the look with cushions.
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Ted had got the girls 'room upstairs, and Dad and Mum had titivated up the big old room for me, colourwashed it and all when they heard I was coming home; they'd gone to a lot of trouble over it, working at it over the week-end.
ROUND THE BEND
