How to Use pert in a Sentence

pert

adjective

• On a summer day in a park in Brooklyn, the sun savaged a swarm of actors in sturdy wool coats and pert hats.
  — Alexis Soloski, idahostatesman, 7 Jan. 2018
• Sorry to disappoint the former, but sleeping in your bra is not what's going to keep 'em pert.
  — Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 15 Jan. 2015
• Families set out to gather the greens, then toss them with pert young scallions, vinegar and sometimes a shot of sweet sorghum syrup or honey.
  — Louisa Shafia, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
• Mr. Foxe cowers as he is surrounded by a prancing horde of pert young gang members in skimpy sunsuits.
  — J. Hoberman, New York Times, 6 July 2017
• Banana splits, with their tall scoops of ice cream and drizzles of sauce and pert cherries, made frequent appearances in my childhood.
  — Daniela Galarza, The Denver Post, 4 Sep. 2019
• Fanning resembles a very tall fairy; it’s not just her wide eyes, pert nose, and charmingly mischievous grin.
  — Evelyn Crowley, Vogue, 15 Jan. 2019
• If The Odyssey had been the story of a glamour girl, Doris Lilly would be its pert heroine in a fur chubby endlessly stranded on a sleek banquette.
  — Callahan Tormey, Town & Country, 28 Dec. 2020
• Even the best updos can look a little too pert, and oftentimes that’s the problem with wedding day hair, which should always look touchable and never crispy.
  — Hannah Morrill, Allure, 28 June 2017
• Not to mention baking powder, bullets and butter — that pert Land O’Lakes maiden beckoning from the dairy aisle.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• She was then dubbed the ultimate bridesmaid and launched many a fan page exalting her pert posterior.
  — Nardine Saad, latimes.com, 10 Apr. 2017
• The models’ persistently childlike faces look hideously generic (wide eyes, pert noses, plump cheeks).
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 25 June 2019
• In the beginning of the aughts, the designer—who, at the time, was often seen in a pert sweater and collared shirt—had a mane that resembled rumpled university professor hair.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 26 July 2019
• In chapter one, Kate Reddy is awakened at 2 a.m. by daughter Emily, who Snapchatted to a frenemy a photo of the tan line on her pert young butt, which quickly goes viral.
  — Patty Rhule, USA TODAY, 4 June 2018
• The piece, now in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, is a pert portrayal of Domino, who is shown seated at a flashy blue piano sporting a loud green jacket and yellow dress shirt.
  — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2017
• Plenty sweet, to be sure, but certainly not cloying, and despite the grapes’ long hang time the flavors are perfectly fresh — pert and bright, as opposed to the stewy-fruit notes that often burden late-harvest wines.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2019
• The canon is lousy with authors who yearn to be admired for their sensitivity to the full range of female personhood, be that personhood luscious, pert, or swelling coyly against a sheer camisole.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 7 Apr. 2018
• On Charlie Rose in 1996, Kellyanne Fitzpatrick looked pert and impeccable, her plucky spirit dancing across her expressive face.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 19 Jan. 2017
• So yes, a pert derrière looks good in jeans, but strong butt muscles also protect your back and support many daily activities from walking up stairs to bending over or running to catch a cab.
  — Anna Kaiser, Time, 27 Mar. 2018
• And with the exception of Lobacz as Elvira and Ava Danzer in a small role as the pert girl next door, the surrounding cast didn’t have the requisite chops; the two preliminary backstory scenes were especially weak.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2017
• Panicked reports about dangerous immigrants and the president with Hussein for a middle name were presented by white women wearing snug dresses, with pert noses, bronze skin, blonde hair.
  — Amy Larocca, The Cut, 10 Aug. 2017
• Otaño veered from tradition a little by portraying her character on first appearance as a bit more pert and flirty than usual, a defensible approach.
  — Olin Chism, star-telegram.com, 23 Apr. 2017
• This adds dimensions to their sisterly quest, even if the harmonious emotions and good intentions never fully atone for the conventionalism of the blond-on-blond character design, the tiny waists, pert breasts, jeweled eyes and pale plastic-y skin.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2019

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