wry

How To Use wry In A Sentence

• Commander Laurel D' ken smiled wryly as the blue haired officer said to Allison, ‘We'll need to nursemaid them a bit but I think they'd be able to manage well enough.’
• But King George's smile was a bit awry tonight.
• with his necktie twisted awry
• Fancy an heir that a father had seen born well-featured and fair, turning suddenly wry-nosed, club-footed, squint-eyed, hair-lipped, wapper-jawed, carrot-haired, from a pride become an aversion, -- my case was yet worse. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
• If something goes awry, more than five billion people would be exposed to dangerous levels of radiation.
• Like arthritis, multiple sclerosis and diabetes, lupus is a disease of the immune system gone awry.
• ‘That's a mouse cowry,’ the doctor said. ‘A lovely find.’
• Coates wry, muttered lyrics lend his ditties a mischievous if subdued charm.
• It's wry humour that permeates the tale rather than bitterness.
• These normally nuanced characters briefly became vessels for issue-based polemic rather than wry, subtle dialogue - and even to unequivocal admirers, this is a serious wobble.