How To Use Testily In A Sentence
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In the year before his death he dealt somewhat testily with the whole matter in an interview with a journalist on the Courier-Mail.
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‘So did I,’ Lashana grumbled, glaring at Cris testily.
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As the commuter plane in the cartoon plunges downward, the fat passenger testily refuses to acknowledge her guilt in misleading the airline about her weight.
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A different Microsoft executive responded testily when approached at an industry event in San Francisco with the query that is the headline of this article.
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he said testily: `Go away!'
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‘The fans and public are so sick of this question still being brought up,’ he says testily when the topic of his health and mental state is mentioned.
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Enna shot a fierce glance at him, muttering "scalawag," half under her breath, while his old father said testily, "Horace, you speak too strongly.
Elsie's Motherhood
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‘It's called a computer,’ he answered testily, ‘I won't even try to explain how it works - I doubt you could comprehend it.’
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She growled whether I wanted a large or a small mineral water, and when I asked for specificity, she testily conceded that 'large' was a litre.
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Brides usedn't to be 'poor deared' in my day," the old lady remarked rather testily to her handmaiden, Jane.
The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town
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Old or not, he replied testily, that little shark was about to sink his chops into my leg.
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He rambles and manhandles the equipment, testily blaming newfangled technology when he has difficulty with basic tasks such as placing a compact disc in a player.
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Yet he graciously forgave Le Gros and thanked him for his apology—though he also added somewhat testily, “I think both Mary and I do know a genuine fossil when we see one and can distinguish a pongid ape from a hominid without any difficulty.”
Ancestral Passions
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He reacted testily to reports that he'd opposed military involvement.
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It's about hope,’ he said testily this weekend as he hopscotched from the heartland to Dixie to California in pursuit of caucus votes and contributions.
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Rachel did this by 'herself' with the shunter watching - when 'she' had finished 'she' said to the shunter testily "If you had been a gentleman you would have done that for me." to which the shunter said "And if you had been a lady I would have done.
Happy Valentines Day I Don`t Think
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He rambles and manhandles the equipment, testily blaming newfangled technology when he has difficulty with basic tasks such as placing a compact disc in a player.
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Brides usedn't to be 'poor deared' in my day," the old lady remarked rather testily to her handmaiden, Jane.
The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town
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“No, Dad, the word is muda,” said Amy a bit testily.
VELOCITY
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He rambles and manhandles the equipment, testily blaming newfangled technology when he has difficulty with basic tasks such as placing a compact disc in a player.
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As the commuter plane in the cartoon plunges downward, the fat passenger testily refuses to acknowledge her guilt in misleading the airline about her weight.
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`I don't think there are any miracles to be magicked ," Liz explained testily.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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As the Committee chairman testily remarked, this is a little like nailing jelly.
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He reacted testily to reports that he'd opposed military involvement.
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Is it unmacho for a man to accept flowers?" she asked testily.
Texas! Chase
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He responded testily to questions about WikiLeaks's opaque finances, Private Manning's fate and WikiLeaks's apparent lack of accountability to anybody but himself, calling the questions "cretinous," "facile" and reminiscent of "kindergarten.
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