PROPER in a Sentence

Learn PROPER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
290 example sentences for PROPER, such as:
1. Each person receives his proper quantum.
2. Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.
3. Ain never seed a proper cah'ige in dere lives.
4. Refugees are dying for want of proper health care.
5. We should have had a proper discussion before voting.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PROPER
proper
 a.  having all the qualities typical of the thing specified
 a.  marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "Ah-ah-hum," said Gerald, suddenly and guiltily aware that the conversation, a most interesting and entirely proper one to him, would seem quite otherwise to Ellen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Charles was not excited over the prospect of marrying her, for she stirred in him none of the emotions of wild romance that his beloved books had assured him were proper for a lover.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  And, of course, you always blushed on such occasions, otherwise they would pinch you with more pleasure than was proper and then tell their sons that you were fast.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  Useless for the patriotic Mrs. Merriwether to upbraid her daughter and point out that homespun was the proper bridal attire for a Confederate bride.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  Ain never seed a proper cah'ige in dere lives.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
6  I feared that 'visiting the sick and the imprisoned' was not your proper role.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  You are just putting on this indignant front because you think it's proper and respectable.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  The matter would be discussed at dinner tables for weeks and the opinion of the County would be that the O'Hara girls had not shown proper respect for their father.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
9  Scarlett would have suffered agonies of humiliation at having friends find her without draperies and carpets and cushions and the proper number of chairs and teacups and spoons.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
10  She'd just have to see to it that the convicts got their proper rations in the future.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
11  Things are so different during the war and nice people associated with many men who were not quite-- It was all for the Cause and very proper, too.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
12  She invited Mrs. Meade and Mrs. Whiting who she knew disliked her and who she knew would be embarrassed because they did not have the proper clothes to wear to so elegant a function.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
13  Rhett lent an attentive ear to this remark, as he did to all Mammy's remarks about the proper raising of little girls.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
14  It was Rhett--Rhett who had strong arms to hold her, a broad chest to pillow her tired head, jeering laughter to pull her affairs into proper perspective.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
15  Her sister, a busy proper advisory soul, older than herself, had become a stranger to her even when they lived in the same house.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (80 in 6 pages)
1  Some people are being denied access to proper medical care.
2  Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.
3  We need to do a proper quantitative analysis of this problem.
4  Many young men were sent into battle without proper training.
5  This is Sara's first proper job - she usually does temporary work just for the money.
6  Britain imposed fines on airlines which bring in passengers without proper papers.
7  The friendly chat which comes before the interview proper is intended to relax the candidate.
8  Refugees are dying for want of proper health care.
9  We need to carry out a proper evaluation of the new system.
10  To compare the effect of different substances on gastric acid secretion proper control solutions comparable with the test solution should be used.
11  The proper name for Matthew's condition is hyperkinetic syndrome.
12  The elders were responsible for the proper conduct of community life.
13  The development was planned without proper regard to the interests of local people.
14  We should have had a proper discussion before voting.
15  Each person receives his proper quantum.