How to Use dandy in a Sentence

dandy

1 of 2 noun

• That was a dandy of a game.
• His version of Geralt is fine, dandy even.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
• But with young black dandies, there’s also a hip-hop element.
  — Errin Haines Whack, The Seattle Times, 4 June 2017
• In other words, no jet-setting dandy's wardrobe would be complete without it!
  — Craig Montague, Town & Country, 22 July 2014
• His style is hard to pin down, often walking the line between luxe-mallrat and rocker-dandy.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2018
• The shrimp and grits ($36) are scrumptious, the sea scallops ($46) dandy.
  — Charles Babington, New York Times, 21 May 2025
• Viard also dabbled in men’s styles with menswear jackets and dandy-like British dressing gowns.
  — Thomas Adamson, ajc, 7 Mar. 2023
• Even its most powerful denizens drove beat-up Volvos; its dandies shopped at Brooks Brothers.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2026
• But this year, Kansas State has a dandy of a running back in freshman Deuce Vaughn.
  — Brice Paterik, Dallas News, 30 Sep. 2020
• The weekend is a dandy, though, with clearing skies and highs in the 50s — pretty typical for March.
  — David Streit, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
• For reasons unknown, Toor and Rivera chose the honorific, which referred to her as a female dandy.
  — Mathew Sandoval, The Conversation, 24 Oct. 2023
• The champions and runners-up in the Western Conference from last year square off in what's sure to be a dandy of a match.
  — Briar Napier, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2020
• This British painter’s canvases of black dancers and dandies are not strictly portraits, but fictions invented by the artist that have the ring of truth.
  — New York Times, 18 May 2017
• This British painter’s canvases of black dancers and dandies are not strictly portraits, but fictions invented by the artist that have the ring of truth.
  — New York Times, 31 Aug. 2017
• With each character trait that was added, the image of Wags as a dandy of the Wall Street underworld came into focus.
  — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2021
• Meanwhile, Ryan Colbert is the straw that stirs the mystery as a devious dandy in the first play before becoming a wide-eyed med-tech nerd in the second.
  — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 20 July 2019
• The female dandy was a recurring trope in Westwood’s work, which at heart, was a consideration of Englishness.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2022
• Griffin points to 1953's Peter Pan, which portrayed Captain Hook as a prissy dandy who, well, preys on young boys.
  — Nico Lang, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Mar. 2017
• In Abercrombie’s fiction, the shining hero on horseback may be the most wretched cretin of them all, while the dandy of a prince, despised by his own people, is the one person with real courage and decency.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2021
• Rea Irvin, the magazine’s first art editor, is best known for creating Eustace Tilley, the monocled dandy whose upturned nose has graced our pages for a hundred years.
  — Françoise Mouly, New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2025
• Velvet tuxes fit for a dandy like Heathcliff also walked the runway at Cucculelli Shaheen and Pamella Roland.
  — Ari Stark, Footwear News, 17 Feb. 2026
• Henri thought Chase old-fashioned and a dandy, and publicly denounced Impressionism as academic and sentimental.
  — Anne Halsey, JSTOR Daily, 6 Aug. 2025
• In corporate environments, the Black female dandy’s presence disrupts assumptions about professionalism that have long been coded as both white and male.
  — Skylar Mitchell, Essence, 12 May 2025
• Modern and classic Black dandies also tend to embrace bespoke tailoring, extravagant accessories and bold color palettes.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
• Rich and his staff are gearing up for two dandies at the end of this month, once again thrusting his Rich Harvest Farms golf course and the greater Aurora area onto the sport's national stage.
  — Rick Armstrong, Aurora Beacon-News, 29 Apr. 2017
• And producing artistic director Brian Isaac Phillips has picked a couple of dandies – plays that promise to offer searing observations of very modern issues.
  — David Lyman, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
• Young people of color, young Asian men who are wildly open to the avant-garde, new dandies who refuse to be stereotyped as belonging to any class—the entire choir of voices who are infinitely expanding the sense of what gender identity is.
  — Vogue, 22 Jan. 2019
• The season showcased the enduring strength of Italian craftsmanship, with designers offering modern interpretations of the dandy.
  — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 23 June 2025
• And those Berger hallmarks are certainly on display in the new one, a drama about a dandy named Lord Doyle, a down-and-out con man and gambling addict on the brink of a breakdown in the kitschy gaming hub of Macau.
  — Glenn Whipp, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
• He is known for being Francis Mallmann, the Patagonian dandy who can put together a royal repast in a clearing in the forest, using little more than a few sticks tied together and a smoldering flame surrounded by stones.
  — João Canziani, Esquire, 22 Jan. 2018

dandy

2 of 2 adjective

• We thought something was wrong, but he said everything was just fine and dandy.
• Fine and dandy, but by the way, what are you being paid to tell us that?
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2022
• Now our thug president says all that’s fine and dandy with him.
  — Chuck Plunkett, The Denver Post, 4 Feb. 2017
• That's all fine and dandy, but the vets still have plenty of tread left on their tires.
  — Peter Dawson, star-telegram, 5 Apr. 2018
• The Quest is a four-piece dandy that packs well and casts even better.
  — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 24 Aug. 2022
• At the end of the day about 50 dandy perch were taken ashore by the group.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2022
• Odds are, though, Campbell will return and be fine and dandy.
  — Eric Bolin, ajc, 13 Oct. 2017
• And that's all fine and dandy, but then Miley shared her new feelings on the genre.
  — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 5 May 2017
• Each guest was invited to hurl a brick through the windows — a dandy way of trolling the libs.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 23 Oct. 2025
• That’s all fine and dandy, but Rippon would like us to know the condoms aren’t that great.
  — Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 12 Feb. 2018
• This is the handy-dandy go to for recognizing random songs in the street.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2017
• With his twangy-dandy personal style, Stuart looked the part too.
  — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 22 Jan. 2022
• All seemed just dandy until both eagles left their nest unattended, and ravens swooped in.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2026
• Canned seltzers are nice and wine is dandy but most cans don’t contain anything close to a real cocktail.
  — Alissa Fitzgerald, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
• And then keep an eye open for those handy dandy self-driving cars to provide you with your exurb driving needs.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
• Sidney Crosby had a goal and a dandy assist to set up Kessel for a goal.
  — Kevin Allen, USA TODAY, 21 May 2017
• Everybody wants everything to go fine and dandy and perfect all the time.
  — Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 11 June 2019
• But his last pitch of that inning was a dandy, striking out Corey Seager.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Oct. 2021
• The 4-mile round-trip hike through woods is mostly flat and takes you to several dandy overlooks.
  — Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 11 June 2020
• Hopefully, the little guy is all dandy and is now staying away from fences and buckets.
  — Tj MacIas, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2025
• The profile of the man here echoes the dandy on our first cover, Eustace Tilley.
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
• Synonymous with London, this all round dandy about town shares his favorite haunts across the city.
  — Felicity Carter, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
• Scott, for instance, is a dandy tap dancer, but muffles most of Puck’s witticisms.
  — Misha Berson, The Seattle Times, 12 May 2017
• These handy dandy gadgets cut, dig, saw, till, weed, and measure, doing the work of a slew of gardening hand tools.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Dec. 2021
• The news is as fine and dandy (like sour candy) after scans of a healthy Marge only predicted four lambs.
  — Fox News, 28 Apr. 2020
• Candy is dandy but trick or treat for UNICEF has heft.
  — NPR, 30 Oct. 2025
• The walleye runs on the Sandusky and Maumee rivers are being replaced by a dandy white bass run right now.
  — cleveland.com, 11 May 2018
• With any steak or chop, try the dandy house Worcestershire sauce; a sauce is included in the price, as are two side dishes.
  — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2018
• Winter was my father's busy season, and the shows were a dandy babysitter for a guy with a kid who loved being in the woods and on the water.
  — cleveland.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• Here's a handy dandy guide to the 14 people who will help pick the Next In Fashion winner.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 30 Jan. 2020