You don't have proper dignity as chief of the section.

Stockings should be of the proper size.

England proper does not include Wales.

If you want to do good work, you should use the proper tools.

You'll never get ahead in this place unless you go through the proper channels.

Miss Baker knew that the young man would have to leave very soon, so she decided to ask him to move his car a bit, so that she could park hers in the proper place for the night before going to bed.

Tom is the proper boy for the job.

It is not proper that you talk that way.

That is a custom proper to Japan.

That is not a proper subject to bring up in conversation at the dinner table.

That's not a proper thing to say.

Proper qualifications are required for the position.

He needs proper medical attention at a hospital.

He is the proper person for the job.

You can't rely on him these days to do a proper job.

You have just won a prize of $5000 in a California state safety competition for proper use of your seatbelt.

Read whatever books you think proper.

Good health consists of proper eating and moderate exercise.

Discretion is proper to judges.

There are not enough doctors to give proper care to the children.

We must see the matter in its proper perspective.

I want to have a proper house and garden.

Proper praise stinks.

It is hard work to keep my room in proper order.

I choked! I should have come up with a proper plan first.

Proper clothes count for much in business.

What with fresh air and proper exercise, he recovered from his illness quickly.

Parents must provide their children with proper food and clothing.

Cleanliness is proper to the Japanese.

Proper diet and exercise are both important for health.

I will tell it to him at the proper time.

Alceste's family is eating with proper manners.

When suddenly faced with a dangerous situation, hold your horses - make sure of the proper action, then act.

In Japan, it is proper to bow when you meet someone.

It is not proper to be late for a dinner party.

He doesn't know even the proper way of greeting people.

She was a rather prim and proper young lady.

She was wearing proper clothes for the party.

Is tomorrow's breakfast bread or a proper one with rice?

Yes, thanks. Recently I've been roughing it so I was able to get a proper sleep for the first time in a while.

There were so few proper members in the badminton club that it was half-way between dead and 'on break'.

Just because it's a "safe day" I'm not going to make out like monkeys without protection. Isn't it the duty of loving sex to take proper care of contraception?

We use the symbol “⊂” to denote proper inclusion.

Many a gentleman of the old school has been provoked to remark regretfully upon the under-bred manners and bearing of even the better classes in the modern industrial communities; and the decay of the ceremonial code—or as it is otherwise called, the vulgarisation of life—among the industrial classes proper has become one of the chief enormities of latter-day civilisation in the eyes of all persons of delicate sensibilities.

He's a proper young man now.

Not all geniuses are engineers, but all engineers are geniuses. The set of all engineers is thus an, unfortunately proper, subset of all geniuses.

There's proper etiquette for everything, even an orgy.

We all live, at any rate for a time, and the majority of us always, in polygamy. Consequently, as each man needs many women, nothing is more just than to let him, nay, make it incumbent upon him to provide for many women. By this means woman will be brought back to her proper and natural place as a subordinate being.

The files are in proper order.

Life is something we are fond of, and death is something we dislike. Things we are fond of bring happiness, and things we dislike bring sorrow. Only when sorrow and happiness do not lose their proper bounds is man able to combine his strength with the nature of Heaven and Earth, and thus to endure for a long time.

England proper is divided into 48 ceremonial counties.

She got herself through college telling people their fortunes as a phony psychic. She didn't even have a proper Tarot deck, but her clients didn't know the difference.

A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can."

Oh, if only we could be as shy and timid in our shameful actions as we are in our proper ones!

If everyone could pay close attention, please. I will now auscultate the patient. Make sure to note the proper procedure because you all will be practicing this tomorrow.

Last night I was too tired to cook a proper meal, so I just ate instant noodles.

It's a puppy mill, not a proper breeding place.

She did not want to make short films, because she wanted to make proper feature films; she had made up her mind.

I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it being so proper.

As our vehicle leaves the ground and plunges over the edge of the cliff toward the valley floor, I ponder whether it is possible that one might allege I am guilty of an act of moral failure, having failed to maintain a proper course along the roadway.

He took the proper steps to meet the situation.

This is not the proper way to hold a teacup.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

As Yan Yuan pointed out, "proper moral cultivation could begin from any point on the moral map, not just the mean position".

Now that Tom is taking proper medication, he should be able to control himself better.

I'll go get the proper forms.

Before tidying up, all my things were lying scattered about in their proper places; afterwards, everything was neatly arranged the devil knows where.

Use a proper language.

I'm not the kind of idiot who would climb a mountain in the winter without proper preparations.

Did you know that the proper EMT response to a prolapsed uterus is to make a gloved fist and shove the uterus and your fist itself up the vagina? Also, once you've done that, you're stuck in that position until you get to the hospital!

Finally you're doing things the proper way.

Tom didn't follow the proper procedure.

Words must be arranged in the proper sequence and the rules of grammar must be followed for a sentence to be accepted as a natural-sounding sentence.

It's just proper they tell me everything.

Tom needs proper medical attention.

Tom needs proper medical treatment.

I promise to tell you if I find something proper.

A day is a period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper — the former devoted to sins of business, the latter consecrated to the other sort.

They couldn't give Tom a proper burial.

Rock climbing without proper equipment is dangerous.

It isn't easy to write sentences in Esperanto without the proper keyboard.

The problem with fundamentalists insisting on a literal interpretation of the Bible is that the meaning of words change. A prime example is 'Spare the rod, spoil the child'. A rod was a stick used by shepherds to guide their sheep to go in the desired direction. Shepherds did not use it to beat their sheep. The proper translation of the saying is 'Give your child guidance, or they will go astray.' It does not mean 'Beat the shit out of your child or he will become rotten', as many fundamentalist parents seem to believe.

It's a proper interesting book.

This made me interested in how some international proper names are written in Japanese.

Mary is an aristocrat and a proper lady.

We've received all the proper paperwork.

I don't want to do that without the proper tools.

They dug up Tom's body and gave him a proper burial.

Some staff members at health clubs ought to be trained in the proper use of a defibrillator.

You can reduce your home's heating and cooling costs through proper insulation and air sealing techniques.

"Alright, I think you'll agree to this one." "I am NOT dressing as a banana." "The Equestrian ponies want you to dress as a banana. It is your civic duty. ...Look, I have been making compromises. My new provision only makes you dress as a banana during state functions." "It does not belong in a budget plan, Luna." "Well, how else am I supposed to get you to dress as a banana? You have refused to be open to negotiations!" "You know we have two weeks to agree on a proper budget." Two weeks later, after no agreement could be reached, the violence began.

She got a proper telling-off.

The Master said, "If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with the rites of propriety? If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with music?"

The Master said, "If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with the rites of propriety? If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with music?"

Did you know that the proper way to wear a cummerbund is with the pleats facing upward?

Proper ID is required.

Have a proper funeral for the body so that the soul can reach to heaven.

Without proper radiation protection, humans can't venture out in deep space.

This is not a proper English sentence.

It's important to teach children proper table manners.

It is a proper mountain, not a hill.