posh - use in sentences

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • sound: Hi Thank you very much for your help I am a operations training delivery specialist, sounds a bit posh!

Infinitive complement

  • push: Both of our children were born within the NHS and I certainly wasn't too posh to push.

Modifies a noun

  • frock: More time was devoted to the descriptions of the posh frocks than was given to the unions to explain their case against these cuts.
  • nosh: There's got to be a reason why people are prepared to pay top dollar for a spot of posh nosh.
  • totty: After Akademi went bust the party loving posh totty was left owing £ 350,000.
  • accent: No posh accents on T.V. No sharks swimming in the custard.
  • suburb: The Ham & High reports on the number of basement excavations currently taking place in the posh suburb.
  • hotel: A posh hotel in Earth's Home Counties Who?

Modifying Another Word

  • rather: How can a rather posh looking band with well crafted polite songs, be defiant?
  • too: Are you too posh for our movie motors quiz?
  • slightly: Galleria has a similar down-to-earth but slightly posh style to Browns.
  • very: Only very posh people like Dame Maggie get six months.
  • quite: I remember thinking it was quite posh to be learning Latin.
  • really: To be REALLY posh you could buy two, one for the wash down afterward.

Used with adjective complement

  • talk: Plus they tend to talk posh, which bites, frankly.
  • sound: This is a State Campground, which sounds posh.
  • look: The area around looks posh, I'm guessing someone has actually requested the area to be obscured?
  • get: My home is a small stone terraced house in a part of Bolton which is getting posh.
  • go: There is a look that chippies get when they go posh.
  • feel: I use terry squares with plastic pants and sometimes with a plastic diaper wrap for when I'm feeling posh.

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