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UK
/bˈɔɪəntli/
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ADVERB
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in a cheerfully buoyant manner
we accepted the opportunity buoyantly
How To Use buoyantly In A Sentence
- But the citizens of this terminal world are buoyantly good-humoured.
- The London Mayor, Boris Johnson, is buoyantly insistent transport will be the 2012 dog that doesn't bark, but those at the sharp end betray more anxiety. Olympic year is almost here – but are we ready for it? | Owen Gibson
- She was no longer so buoyantly superficial in her envisagement of life, and the big things reacted on her in a way which would previously have been impossible. The Hermit of Far End
- I thought back to those buoyantly optimistic times at CCNY, the working-class Harvard as it was justifiably called, last week when students protesting onerous tuition hikes at the University of California got pepper-sprayed for their efforts to keep hope alive. Robert Scheer: Thanks for What?
- Approaching a still deep creek all swam readily and buoyantly, constantly up-ending like ducks.
- As she set out with her father toward the village jail, she was again buoyantly in command of the situation. Jerry Junior
- The boat acknowledged it at once, taking less water and rising more buoyantly. THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN
- we accepted the opportunity buoyantly
- He was ill for a decade, but recovered and played as buoyantly and venturesomely as ever.
- Le Carré's devoted readers -- I count myself as one -- know that not only did he transform spy novels when, based on his background as an MI5 and MI6 agent, he began his writing career but that he also buoyantly transcends the genre. David Finkle: First Nighter: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Alec Guinness Spectacular on DVD