How every Santa should look?

Usage examples of presentable.

Once the carriage was moderately presentable, Flax and Drop had to clean themselves before snatching a hasty lunch.

A few presentable probationers had been allowed to look on while the daughter of the Director of Social Services had given her a bunch of spring flowers.

She wondered now where the other, probably less presentable, probationers had been kept.

Once they worked her over with the manicure prodders and eyebrow tweezers, curling tongs and earwax scoops, left her fermenting all afternoon in a mealy flour face mask, then finished her off with a delicate sponging of red ochre across the cheekbones and a fine gleam of antimony above the eyes, Helena Justina was bound to be presentable enough, even to me.

With one more or less presentable thief, Spinnel was getting off light.

I had washed most of the dye from his hair at the Little Court, and trimmed the ends so that he looked somewhat presentable.

Helena was as presentable as she ever would be, in the wedding raiment dictated by ancient custom: the unhemmed tunic secured around her ample waist by a girdle of wool with a double knot, covered by a fine saffron-colored cloak, matching sandals, and a thin metal collar worn tightly about her neck.

Having uttered all the necessary words of congratulation, I should like to retire to an obscure lodging-house near the Gate of Woe, a house in which some of my less presentable Algerine and Berber friends would excite no comment, whereas they might well compromise an official residence.

He wanted to look smart for his sister, and on the shopwindow dummy this Glenurquhart check looked very presentable.

As she checked herself out in a mirror and tried to become as presentable as possible they crossed the ancient Patuxent River and the fossil-strewn cliffs of Calvert with its incongruous nuclear reactors and LNG docks stuck somehow in the middle of wilderness, and out over the broad, blue bay.

I was sitting at the window with my guardian on the following morning, and Ada was busy writing-of course to Richard--when Miss Jellyby was announced, and entered, leading the identical Peepy, whom she had made some endeavours to render presentable by wiping the dirt into corners of his face and hands and making his hair very wet and then violently frizzling it with her fingers.

Her shining copper sheathing, her galvanised iron-work, her deck, white as ivory, betrayed the pride taken by John Bunsby in making her presentable.

But he needed a man on the road to show the movies, somebody trustworthy and presentable: Virgil.

At any rate, Becky seemed to understand how necessary a fresh supply of presentable hankies was to Harvey without his having to go into details about the carrot muffins and the burglars and the Niagara fall of gratified tears.

A few presentable probationers had been allowed to look on while the daughter of the Director of Social Services had given her a bunch of spring flowers.