How To Use Airily In A Sentence
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Not at all," airily: "a well-known aeronaut, who has recently beaten the distance-record, and is looking remarkably well in spite of his advanced years, was among the distinguished guests!
Winding Paths
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Any failures that popped up were airily dismissed because Klein was fine-tuning the mechanism.
Joel Klein's snow job
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Sara asked airily as though the very idea were ridiculous.
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Furthermore, and in continuation, as Mr. McClave always says after his ninthly," airily interrupted Janice, drawing from her bosom the portrait of herself.
Janice Meredith
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I don't care, " he said airily.
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The other airily swings his torches of love, their flames mantling a cloud on which Jupiter's eagle fierily reposes.
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Then the canopy of heaven became a mighty loom, wherein imperial purple and deep sea-green blended, wove, and interwove, with blazing woof and flashing warp, till the most delicate of tulles, fluorescent and bewildering, was daintily and airily shaken in the face of the astonished night.
CHAPTER 18
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Everyone is entitled to an opinion," said the Lion airily.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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Probably not at all important," said Dennis airily, beginning to enjoy himself.
AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE
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I wave airily and the face moves away.
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He blithely absolves this libel as an example of "antonomasia" ( "the use of a proper name to express a general idea," OED), saying rather too airily that in this instance he meant a "Pat Boone-type" to imply any crooner of the well-scrubbed variety.
Happy Days Are Here Again
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this cannot be airily explained to your children
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‘If I switch schools, they're going to have to keep me back a year anyway,’ he stated airily, though he didn't seem too happy about it.
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The heavy brogans on the man's feet made him appear clumsy-footed, but he swung down from the giddy height as lightly and airily as a mountain goat.
All Gold Cañon
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An evolutionist may airily assert that the bacterium, by a lot of intermittent steps, has gained a “little hair” to move about with, so that it will have a better chance of survival than its kind.
Modern Science in the Bible
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Art shouted "hi" through the door and Fran airily waved a hand back.
READY?
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Or as he puts it, so airily, so insouciantly: ‘Don't fret, pet.’
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In the ‘Pelt’ paintings, Finley airily outlined bodices, thongs, brassieres, garter belts and fasteners.
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Ackerman declines to discuss her own emotional resume, but does say airily, "I was born with a poet's sensibility, and Prozac made it impossible for me to do what comes naturally -- think metaphorically, allusively, exploring the hidden connection between seemingly unrelated things.
Book Marks
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It was all right, maybe, for Stephen Hawking to airily dismiss time as a human construct.
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Frank Smith, the chief priest of Whole Word, airily announced that people can learn 50,000 or even 100,000 sight-words.
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Airily the horse whinnied at him, as if stating he was better.
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O well," airily, "if you will have it, we were just coming to dig for corpses;" and she tossed her head with an independent air.
The Rhodesian
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Then the canopy of heaven became a mighty loom, wherein imperial purple and deep sea-green blended, wove, and interwove, with blazing woof and flashing warp, till the most delicate of tulles, fluorescent and bewildering, was daintily and airily shaken in the face of the astonished night.
CHAPTER 18
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Poor trade figures have been airily waved aside as irrelevant or of no consequence so long as oil and invisibles - investment inflows and earnings from travel, insurance and tourism - continued to boom.
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‘I don't think it makes a lot of difference,’ said the governor airily.
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It was all right, maybe, for Stephen Hawking to airily dismiss time as a human construct.
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It was all right, maybe, for Stephen Hawking to airily dismiss time as a human construct.
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All he has to do, says Minister of Foreign Affairs Lawrence Cannon airily, is to persuade the United Nations that he isn't a terrorist.
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Certainly, he seem airily exotic with his cropped hair and face like an oriental cherub.
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Last time we met he was in spectacular sore head mode, grouching at a line of questioning he didn't like and being airily evasive if he felt we were getting too deep.
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Mostly, they just drive. The tension in the story is acutely realised as the town grows in its awe of her ‘scandalous’ behaviour, an opinion she airily does nothing to dispel.
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He can do what he likes - it doesn't bother me, " she said airily.
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Any infelicities in the plot are airily waved away.
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Drenched in embarrassment I managed to say airily to Hall: `Of course all this is an extended metaphor.
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He stuck it in his belt and turned on his heels, calling airily over his shoulder.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
