How To Use Playfully In A Sentence

“Yetta, Yetta, Yetta,” Rahel said in a singsongy voice, playfully swinging around a lamppost. Uprising
There is something playfully provocative about a man extolling the virtues of privacy while surrounded by a cabal of at least 20 people. Times, Sunday Times
He pouted playfully and walked out the back door towards the back lawn of the manor.
‘Now that,’ said Will, playfully pronging a sliver of bacon, ‘is painfully true.’
Her dance cavorts playfully between elegance and tease; a spin of the sari around her, and her perfectly toned midriff is exposed but for a swift moment.

Her dance cavorts playfully between elegance and tease; a spin of the sari around her, and her perfectly toned midriff is exposed but for a swift moment.
Ground floor and blue prints then,' and then even more playfully, `or I could maybe give you a piggyback. FALLEN WOMEN
Her optically dazzling, playfully psychedelic paintings are open to the charge of being about nothing more than retinal pleasure.
The voice lilted playfully, running up and down his spine, as sensual as a warm hand. One Night in Scotland
‘I'll take this one, you've been hogging all the customers all day,’ she laughed and he playfully stuck out his tongue at her and resumed putting the cups where they belong.
She tweaked his ear playfully.
They playfully re-enact events and change details to match personal needs and desires.
In the films, he takes on the adventure novel, placing extraordinary people in extraordinary situations, and ironizing those structures in playfully dubious manners.
He pinched the baby's cheek playfully.
Later, House of Jazz playfully lifted up the sternness of black by mixing it with psychedelic colours and black and white chequered-patterns, creating a collection that pleased especially the young generation.
The typical Beret statement is playfully provocative, experimental yet mining many of the same humorous and satirical veins tapped by Dada and Fluxus antiart. Chicago Reader
Powers's reductive designs playfully reference early works in abstract painting while breaking new territory with their highly creative use of materials.
The numbers were so ugly — things like making only 31.2% of their shots, and missing 15 of 17 three-pointers — that Popovich playfully shoved aside the box score at the start of his postgame news conference. Mavs right at home in Game 3 win as Spurs hit new lows
You might stop at the beach to let warm waves spend themselves playfully against your bronzed body.
Lee nudged my ribs with her elbow playfully, with a friendly familiarity that surprised me.
After reaching over and playfully slugging Sandy's arm, Carla remarked ‘I know it's part of your personality, but sometimes I get tired of your teasing.’
For example, if you like the idea of being playfully seduced by 1890s Parisian floozies, you may want to catch A Night at the Moulin Rouge.
US Army Sgt Kyle Whalen, 22, playfully taps his helmet with an Iraqi boy's toy football helmet during a visit to the boy's school in Mosul.
The camera cuts to young Jason spinning playfully on the counter stool.
Lined with red, the black box poem enacts its filiation yet playfully threatens its ground, where the once white chickens are now floating black hens.
In a rather neat and tidy package, the movie playfully portrays the highs and lows of a complicated dating process.
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She dandled the fruit playfully, kissed it several times, and pretended to juggle it, while laughing with a delicious babbling brook of a laugh.
His brother cuffed him playfully round the head.
Allana bent over and playfully kissed him on the lips as she said, ‘Nothing but the best for the brave, if somewhat fruity, captain.’
US Army Sgt Kyle Whalen, 22, playfully taps his helmet with an Iraqi boy's toy football helmet during a visit to the boy's school in Mosul.
They playfully rode piggyback on their team-mates' shoulders, duelling each other with loaded bottles of champagne.
He playfully pulled my sleeve, drawing me into a hug.
The children were scraping the snow into snowballs and throwing them playfully.
The historical information the audience brings to the film is dissected playfully.
I did however go for quite a long riverside walk through areas of woodland where on a sunny day like this you could almost believe there'd be fairies and pixies scampering about playfully.
The trio brings appropriate whimsy to Gorey's playfully macabre material, an accordion main soundtrack to besotted mothers and weeping chandeliers.
The raven cawed playfully uncaring of its master's irritation, and leapt unto a stack of scrolls.
It's not all brooding insolence though, there are glorious, uplifting love songs that pluck playfully at your heartstrings.
‘Your papa's coming home,’ she whispered to him for the hundredth time as she bounced him on her knee playfully.
There's more to it than Marc Bell, whose playfully obtuse strips and illustrations get most of the attention.
In a mindfully maintained dialogical encounter, argumentation and polemics can become penetrating tools to playfully inquire into the possibilities and limitations of all views.
Still retaining his Zimmerman and his senses, he looked down and beheld the corniferous quadruped gamboling playfully round his singular asylum. Sketches — Volume 04
A troupe of lion cubs nuzzle her hand and chew playfully on her shoelaces.
It was a misaddressed e-mail she playfully responded to, soon leading into an epistolary intimacy, the way only letters and words can reveal each other.
You pause, lean back, look her body up and down once playfully, and say " Hi.
His brother cuffed him playfully round the head.
Some reflect the neo-expressionism of the Neue Wilde, as in an exuberant, graffiti-esque 1983 Veit Hofmann poster with playfully crossed-out dates and primitive markings, or Angela Hampel's boldly feminist images of androgynous women, such as a punk Cassandra. The Flicker of Art Through Tyranny
A snake-charmer is squatting in the dust before the hotel, performing feats of juggling: playfully depositing an egg in one ear, and in a moment picking it, with a sweet smile of surprise, out of the other – or seeming to do it. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
Two fox cubs romped playfully on the river bank.
The big guy laughed and playfully clapped Adam on the shoulder.
Feeling emotionally and playfully engaged with your partner is a must.
You pause, lean back, look her body up and down once playfully, and say " Hi.
Her tail whipped up and playfully boffed him on the side of his face.
I laughed and cuffed him playfully across the side of the head.
On the lighter side, the cold spring rolls - filled with shrimp, mint, wasabi and roast garlic aioli, playfully garnished with cellophane noodles and black sesame seeds - were a refreshing surprise.
He pinched the child's cheek playfully.
Ground floor and blue prints then,' and then even more playfully, `or I could maybe give you a piggyback. FALLEN WOMEN
Two fox cubs romped playfully on the river bank.
Chris' eyes faltered for a moment, but continued to playfully twinkle during his levity.
He picked her up playfully, shaking her side from side before setting her down.
He was pawing playfully with one of her dangly earrings.
Rising to her feet she struck a pose; playfully modeling for him.
The net effect is mysterious yet playfully alive to the moment. Times, Sunday Times
She did so with admirable address--sometimes playfully, sometimes coldly, sometimes firmly, always kindly; yet with all this tact the repeated checks made Pinder cross now and then.
‘Bring it on, slowpoke,’ Andi taunted playfully.
Watch them as they clasp hands and run down to the water's edge; see them prancing playfully where the waves die on the sand, while devoted swains launch the floating mattress upon which it is their custom to bask so picturesquely; see them now as they rush into the green waves and mount the softly rocking thing; observe the gleam of their white arms as, idly, they splash and paddle; note the languid grace of their recumbence: chins on hands, heels waving lazily in air; hear them squeal in inharmonious unison, as a young member of the American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
He quickly kissed my lips and playfully plucked the carton of apple juice from my hand.
‘You haven't seen anything, yet,’ Ikeda jested back playfully.
The net effect is mysterious yet playfully alive to the moment. Times, Sunday Times
"I like a bit of a garden; I indulge in geoponics," he added, playfully.
I playfully punched him back, and he put me in an arm lock and gave me a noogie.
(DINAH _curtsies and takes his arm and they go up_ C.) (DINAH _takes mincing steps and playfully shakes her hand at_ MR. PIM, Mr. Pim Passes By
Some months earlier, on the occasion of Ahab's birthday, the Fourth Mate, Mr. Carvel, had surprised the Captain with his playfully configured comestible Fudgie the Whale. Laurence Hughes: Ahab at Starbucks
Meg slipped on her long pink dress, and stood in front of the mirror, primping her hair playfully.
Craddock is totally in his element, playfully mixing high-test method-style acting with broad melodrama in the construction of the fire-cracker-wired Jon.
Putin playfully shot back, “We certainly would not want to have same kind of democracy as they have in Iraq, quite honestly.” Think Progress » Putin Jabs Bush: ‘We Certainly Would Not Want…The Same Kind of Democracy As They Have in Iraq’
The flies, despite their immobility, seem to dance playfully like marionettes on a stage.
In idle moments, we have imagined ourselves tugging playfully at his beard, perching on his chunky thighs and goosing his ample behind.
He playfully wagged a finger at L. M. "It is fortunate for you, Signor, that they did not apply the olio di ricino. 52449_CLARA
As he cheerfully plays with his toys or writhes playfully to evade the tickling of his loving mum, there is no hint of the rare illness that will mean demanding times lay ahead for the youngster and his parents.
As You Like It is Shakespeare at his most lighthearted - his romcom phase, if you will - full of cross-dressing, pratfalls and playfully abysmal puns.
She nibbled at his lips, playfully, until he grinned.
Water slapped over the decks, rode up the windows and playfully splashed the lookout tower.
He nudged her playfully and she launched into a cutesy story about how his hair is always sticking up and she can't get him to dress appropriately for formal occasions.
The sheep followed each other about, the rabbits ran and jumped playfully in the fields, and the horses neighed in the stables.
He raised an eyebrow and she shook a fist at him playfully, giggling at herself.
And avoid calling anybody a "Polack" as he deemed fellow analyst Ron Jaworski — albeit playfully — during ESPN's draft coverage. Draft days were breeze for Jon Gruden
And then playfully he shunts me with his shoulder, making me step ungracefully into the wall so that even the waiter standing aside holding a stack of dirty plates has to suppress a smile.
Courtesy Tal R and Victoria Miro Gallery, London/ © Tal R 'Science Fiction' 2011 Tal R's art—from his cartoon-like, often sexually explicit drawings that playfully consider the dark and absurd, to the almost child-like collages that mix and match medium and material without convention, to fancifully rendered narrative- and character-rich paintings, full of dramatic color—have made him a buzzed-about talent over the past decade. The Tell-Tale Art of Tal R
In a North Beach bar one day, Caen happened to overhear poet Bob Kaufman playfully invent the word beatnik. The Typewriter Is Holy
I playfully shot back, still guiding my horse along the water's edge.
As a playfully arresting meditation on free will, religion and academia it works too. Times, Sunday Times
She gave a little nicker and pranced playfully back and forth in front of us.
Whether Mr. Carrollton liked "blowsy" complexions or not, he certainly admired Maggie's at that moment, and drawing her closer to his side, he said, half playfully, half earnestly: "To see you thus anxious for me, Maggie, more than atones for your waywardness when last we parted. Maggie Miller
Father nagged playfully, messing my hair again.
While moving from one position to another as he suggested or commanded, she had playfully broken off one flower from a large plant of "marguerite" daisies growing in a quaint Innocent : her fancy and his fact
David playfully blew a raspberry on my stomach.
Playfully tugging on her brown ponytail, he called for a strapless, mint green gown, a long tulle with many flounces of lace and sheer fabric.
From the first days of their courtship, his wife had been a woman vitally erotic, playfully taunting.
Playfully, he tousled my hair, making me once again feel like I was seven.
I slid onto a chair next to his and pushed the glass nearer to him with two paracetamol tablets and trickled my fingers through his scruffy hair playfully.
As she ran her hands over his chest, she made approving noises and tweaked one of his nipples playfully.
She tosses her head and glances over her shoulder to her Master, playfully adding a wiggle to her step.
she loosened the half-hoop of diamonds on her left hand third finger and held it out to him playfully
Juxtaposing faceted semi precious stones, gold and gunmetal chains with cords and the signature BEX ROX magnetic clasps - BEX ROX is playfully sexy, decadent and timeless.
An effective illusionistic device, the lattice seems to emanate from the center of the canvas, playfully lending the work a sense of depth.
The narrative does playfully leave the suggestion that the "night work" performed by Jonas's sleeping self might be the cause of his predicament, perhaps a kind of half-awake dissociative state. Translated Texts
Through mechanical, bound movement she playfully encourages our perhaps devious flirtatious tendencies.
His brother cuffed him playfully round the head.
He pinched the boy's face playfully.
Earlier, Hamlin playfully shot down Busch's contention from last week that he was the "new and improved Kyle Busch" who persevered to win at Richmond. Denny Hamlin edges Kyle Busch in Darlington Nationwide race
Bending his head, he nibbled Inger's right ear playfully.
In 1944 Harold playfully anticipated the problem when, having emended some of Jim's manuscript verse, he added as a consolation: ‘only Ern Malley could write like a genius all the time’.
The puppy that had so taken a liking to Cael bounded in the room, its tongue lolling out the side of his mouth and his eyes dancing playfully.
Steve Martin playfully violates the time-space continuum and then expects regular folks like us to just follow along. Sunday Morning Script Analysis
Watch how she playfully matches Astaire's footwork, much to his delight.
Sonatine," Balanchine's alternately grounded and playfully darting duet to Maurice Ravel's piano music, got a confident and charming performance from coltish Courtney Anderson and an ardent Momchil Mladenov. A Company in Progress
‘Your papa's coming home,’ she whispered to him for the hundredth time as she bounced him on her knee playfully.
She stands on her tiptoes and playfully bites my earlobe, her gaze never leaving our mirrored reflection. Things You Can Do, Some Can't Be Done
And as is my wont, I sat up at precisely 3: 14 a.m. and marveled anew at how playfully, skillfully the brain arranges its thoughts when left to its own dreamy devices. A grief ago
His discursive sentences begin, then wander playfully, searching under a rock for an insight or chasing a firefly to some understanding, before finally tying up, always neatly, his original point.
Last night I sleepily was chatting with her and said unsensitive to which she responded "oh right, we say insensitive in English." of course I playfully kicked her, but it was terribly funny anyway. Lily-white Diary Entry
“You might even call us cousins of a sort,” he continued, splaying his fingers over my breastbone, playfully reaching down to tweak a peaked nipple. Brush of Darkness
Her smile was coy, and she playfully tilted her head, an inquisitive glimmer in her eyes.
Instead, you find yourself outraged by the fact that in the course of an average working day these already unattractive garments soak up tens of billions of endemic, playfully airborne, hospital-dependent microbes issuing from the rheumy pipes and tubes of the chronically ill. Archive 2009-05-01
There," he said, playfully pretending to be vexed, "I'll fetch thee na moor coils on my yead, so thaa needn't expect it. Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow
Now bounding over a rock, now playfully whisking off with his riding rod a floweret in his path, Philibert de Coquelicot rode by his darker companion. Burlesques
Monkeys, with engagingly human faces, juggle playfully with oranges.
She playfully took the pipe out of the man's mouth and puffed on it.
‘Well you're obviously smart enough to manage that, you sound like you're doing better than great,’ she flirted playfully.
Guitars jangling and voices harmonizing, they playfully exchange jabs like two prize fighters sizing each other up, but afraid to commit to the first blow.
She gives him a playfully sexually suggestive smile.
She reached up to playfully dishevel his shining dark hair with the ruffle of bangs that started over his brow. Vulcan’s Glory
He nipped playfully at my ear, as he got the last of the blood off of my gleaning coat.
Do you suppose Kleinzahler actually wrote "The humor is deadpan, ironical, playfully depreciating" or is that last word a mistranscription of "deprecating"? Languagehat.com: NO USE WHATEVER.
‘Enough of the petty bickering you two,’ the blonde woman said playfully.
She said in pretend-shock, and then stuck her tongue out at him playfully. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » The Five Page Challenge!
Moss playfully fired back during an interview with ESPN before the Patriots played the Jets, saying: "I don't really get into the trash talking, but if what he called me was a 'slouch,' then I guess the 'slouch' will be there to see you on Sunday. Darrelle Revis Criticizes Randy Moss's Effort
He whapped Katheryn playfully, set the folded blanket on the cot and continued.
We watched spellbound as they rolled around in the deep mud, then slithered and slid up the muddy bank before playfully pushing each other back down the slope.
But mostly it's jewelry-box crammed with lines like this: "Emboldened by a glass or three of party beaujolais, moms have been known to playfully inquire of the Great Zucchini whether there is any particular reason he merits that nickname. Story pick: The great Weingarten's Great Zucchini
The descent was fast, steep, and playfully technical in parts.
They are playfully bouncing in front of a large oval mirror, thrilled at their own reflections.
Many riddles were embedded in rhymes, playfully disguising answers in metaphors and analogies.
Alan, all twinkly eyed and Rosy cheeked, playfully indulged Kathy as she poured large quantities of liquid nitrogen into a bowl of custard.
She playfully inspected Martin's hand and told his fortune.
He started trying to make fun of me, but since he was drunk and I was pretty sober, it was easy to playfully zing him right back and shut him up.
While monster-hunting on this far-flung island's shores in 1998, I was enthralled to see otters gambolling playfully in the sand dunes.
The house's spatial bounty playfully adjusts to the irregular topography of this Mexican city.
The water lapped playfully closer and close to our toes and the cool sand embraced our bodies like a fresh sheet on a sticky summer night.
Torafu tackled it playfully, batting it around.
Michael laughed slightly, teasing the dog by tapping him on the side of his head, and then pulling his hand away before the dog could playfully bite him.
They laughed; they clowned around, they playfully argued over who would pickup the tab.
"Not until you come and say you're sorry " he pouted playfully.
The mural playfully contrasts with his more introspective recent works.
He nibbled her ear playfully.
The bases are ungainly, jerry-built settings that playfully complement the divalike trees.
The title playfully refers to Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's famous quote: "I don't care if it's a white cat or a black cat. GreenCine Daily

How To Use Playfully In A Sentence

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