How To Use Dully In A Sentence
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I held out the gun for him to take, its sleek black enamel glinting dully in the fluorescent light.
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She quickened her steps to catch up to him, her boots clanging dully on the metal gridwork.
Songs of Love & Death
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'I suppose so,' she said dully.
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The blood thrummed dully in her eardrums, echoing throughout the caverns and sending pain shooting to her skull.
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His eyes stare dully from a pinched little face etched with pain and suffering.
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unpolished buttons glinted dully
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He picked dully at the cheesecake dish, which was now empty except for a few stray crust crumbs and bits of cake smeared about, wondering idly if one could read cheesecake smears like tea leaves.
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Puddles of frozen slush glittered dully in the reflected yellow light from the phony gas lamps that illuminated the brick-paved plaza.
A RODENT OF DOUBT
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The sun reflected dully off the stone walls.
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The blocking is dully symmetrical, the movement direction in spearcarrier mode.
Times, Sunday Times
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He looked dully around, then realised that the boat was not at its berth in the marina.
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After awhile he moved, lifted his head, and looked about him dully at first and then with a certain stoical acceptance of his plight.
The Ranch at the Wolverine
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‘Sorry Mrs. Young,’ chorused the others dully, looking slightly shamefaced, and Jesse redder than before.
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The text seems dully at variance with the fantasy of the illustrations and falls between two stools.
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In the morning, he sat on the edge of the bed, the weight of another day upon him, light sifting dully in from under the window shade.
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The flashtube she had held for him, to furnish light, wavered in her hand, making grotesque shadows chase across the room, over crowded machines and dully gleaming bulkheads.
Three Worlds To Conquer
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And given the staggeringly large numbers of people who devote their existence to suppressing every last shred of their intelligence by sitting around in slack-jawed, gaping stupifaction, swallowing wholesale whatever infantile lie is shovelled down their gullets by the paid professional liars and hypocrites at places like Faux Noise and Whirled Nuts Dully — and swallowing such drivel without even a first, much less a second thought — then exactly what REAL chance is there of a Constitutional Amendment (no matter how rational or necessary) ever even coming up for discussion?
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Callahan's knuckles were scabbed, all cracked and red and throbbing dully when she paid attention to them.
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She was tired and her mind ticked away dully, mechanically, as the clock on the mantel.
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‘She doesn't drink alcohol,’ Daryl said dully as he downed his fourth beer.
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What was it about a waistcoat that was so piercingly sexy? she wondered dully.
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Now the first man died ere his great haired breast was come upward over the rock; and he sank back, and sagged and fell dully, and I heard him bodge downward from rock to rock, very lumbersome; and so in a moment was silence.
The Night Land
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Ruby laser light stitched the interior of the sanctum like thinnest threads of stronger flame within a dully glowing oven.
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The coins glimmered in my palm, dully reflecting the dim light cast by the streetlamp overhead.
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she nodded her head dully
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One hour of right down love is worth an age of dully living on.
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That's good," he said dully, putting down his half-eaten sandwich.
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The girl had bright pink hair that dully caught the light, reflecting a million glittering sparkles.
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As she spooned the food into me I took a look at her, and noted dully that she was pretty enough for an Indian, with a wide mouth and tip-tilted nose which suggested that some Frog voyageur had wintered among the Sioux fifteen years back.
Isabelle
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The sunlight tinged everything dully orange, its rays sifting through an ever-present layer of dust, and in it her aquiline profile was haloed in gold.
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The children looked at her dully as they used the legs of the gates as makeshift soccer goals.
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The sun was a pale circle in the white sky, glinting dully on the frosty grass.
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The third was a lengthy and dully-written biography of a late nineteenth-century general.
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While the drum beat slowly, a havildar and two naiks went along the ranks of the prisoners, tearing the buttons off the uniform coats; they had been half cut off before-hand, to make the tearing easy, and soon in front of the long grey line there were little scattered piles of buttons, gleaming dully in the sultry light; the grey coats hung loose, like sacks, each with a dull black face above it.
Fiancée
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Garbage blowing on the sidewalk would offend them as much as would a dully designed highrise.
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Puddles of frozen slush glittered dully in the reflected yellow light from the phony gas lamps that illuminated the brick-paved plaza.
A RODENT OF DOUBT
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It was cool and dark there, and on a low table by the bed there was already a kerosene lamp burning dully through its dirty chimney.
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Puddles of frozen slush glittered dully in the reflected yellow light from the phony gas lamps that illuminated the brick-paved plaza.
A RODENT OF DOUBT
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One hour of right down love is worth an age of dully living on.
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Ruby laser light stitched the interior of the sanctum like thinnest threads of stronger flame within a dully glowing oven.
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It is a kind of living death; sitting in the auditorium and trying to affix your attention to the funereal pageant of dully unrewarding scenes and images is like having a kilo of wet cement injected into your skull.
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Old relics dotted the entrance beyond; knots of yarn and wool rippled, brightly-colored etchings which reflected dully in the sepulchral gloom.
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The knife's blade gleamed dully in the dark.
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It flared dully in the image intensifier, the equipment's electronics dampening down the effect.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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The blocking is dully symmetrical, the movement direction in spearcarrier mode.
Times, Sunday Times
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One hour of right down love is worth an age of dully living on.
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A recent job of calcimining had transformed the room from a dirty grayish, white to a soft shade of pink; the old-fashioned furniture had been "done over," and glowed dully in the fading light.
The Pride of Palomar
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Just go back to doing the only thing you are capable of, which is sitting around in gaping, slack-jawed stupefaction swallowing wholesale any and every idiotic lie that is spoon-fed to you by the paid professional liars at Faux Noise and Whirled Nuts Dully.
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she asked as she sat up, her ankle throbbing dully as she did.
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Garbage blowing on the sidewalk would offend them as much as would a dully designed highrise.
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His eyes stare dully from a pinched little face etched with pain and suffering.
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One hour of right down love is worth an age of dully living on.
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The sun reflected dully off the stone walls.
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Occasionally men now married, and living dully content in the prim suburban smugness of Pelham or New Rochelle, boasted of past friendship with her, wagging their heads doggishly.
Gigolo
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By finding out what the facts are, rather than spending all of our time sitting around in gaping, slack-jawed stupefaction, swallowing wholesale whatever infantle lie is shovelled down our gullet by the paid professional liars at Faux Noise and Whirled Nuts Dully, and swallowing said lies without even a first much less a second thought.
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His fingers plunked dully on the wrong key, and the young man wrenched his attention away and resumed his disjointed playing to the end of the piece.
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the light shone dully through the haze
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She overbalanced hard into the rim of a fountain with a thump that echoed dully, and then lurched upright again, landing a wild punch on his shoulder.
And the thought becomes a memory
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‘I don't know what you're talking about,’ she replied dully flopping onto the feather bed.
