How To Use Wryly In A Sentence
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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.’
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You need to watch the diet and, he says wryly, this is one publican that only rarely gets a chance to have a few pints.
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That fascinating gamut from dove to anthracite, Petra thought wryly.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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So, too, do the sanitary pioneers she tracks down and whose characters she wryly sketches with a few deft flicks of the pen.
Times, Sunday Times
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In an introductory note to the teacher, he says wryly that ‘Much of the commentary has been kept sufficiently gnomic not to impede the teacher who wants to modify or dissent from it,’ and such a note is borne out by what follows.
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Jean in a London laundromat, wryly observes: ‘I squandered my life's savings to watch my smalls go round.’
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Here in Pork Smith we have entered what mr. delagar and I wryly call astrological cold spots -- places in life where one must begin to walk carefully, as everything that can go wrong begins to do so.
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He also wryly acknowledges that he risks sounding like a grumpy old man pining for an overly-romanticised past.
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She recognized it as an unspoken apology and smiled wryly as she continued.
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With Shanza's hand still clasped in his hold, Zethus jested wryly, ‘Too bad I'm not a palm reader.’
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The thought made her smile wryly, then she bit her lip as she caught a puzzled glance from Robert.
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He did occasional odd jobs, puttered with fruitless inventions, commented wryly on the gaudy events of the day, botanized, talked with his father, wrote a few articles, and looked for a job.
The Worldly Philosophers
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But he wryly added that full control of a vehicle should always be maintained when making hand signals.
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‘Unfortunately,’ Jack mused wryly to himself, ‘much of what they'd " learned " had come from television.’
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Excellent dialogue and wryly amusing situations were wrung hard and without subtlety by the two main actors.
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TwitWit promises to turn the most mundane tweets into wryly amusing bon mots, Seinfeldesque observations, and sidesplitting jokes.
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Hell, I'd have settled for wryly chucklesome, or dryly entertaining.
How to Love Right Wingers
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Idly checking the state of debate among Eurosceptics, I was wryly amused to discover that the latest bogeyman is the European Gendarmerie Force, or EGF.
April Books 1) The Emperor's Babe, by Bernardine Evaristo
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`I see,' he commented wryly
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And you, being a good Welshwoman," said Turcaill, wryly smiling, "fear for your Gwynedd, and all those men of Owain's host camped there barely a mile from us.
His Disposition
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I think I still know how to soup up a corem board," Kirk said wryly.
Recovery
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He wryly adds, The point of a GDP statistic is to drain away those sorts of problems.
Misleading Indicator
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She thought wryly that had Lady Percy's dress had a centimeter less of décolletage, her breasts would spill out into Lord Beaumont's hands.
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He knit his brows in a tight, frown and smiled wryly to himself.
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He wrote one inimitably brilliant work, one wryly enjoyable one, some amusing pieces, and everything else is admirable but largely unreadable.
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"Well, for the time being, you are our child," Billy remarked wryly.
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The hyrax remarked wryly, ‘Looks like somebody beat us to it, m'friend.‘
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As John Adams would wryly say later, ‘In general, our generals were outgeneralled.’
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As White wryly remarks, the Irish have been talking about revenge since they lost in Bloemfontein and Cape Town and should not need to be motivated more than they already are.
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She smiled wryly to herself, thinking that perhaps he, like the local songbirds and crows, had flown south to avoid the oncoming winter.
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And I don't think that's going to give him the screaming habdabs, I thought wryly.
DEAD BEAT
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Enter," he said wryly as the clumping and stomping of ironshod feet halted just outside the tent flap.
War of the Twins
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He smiled wryly as she roused, and tried to struggle.
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No doubt Coppola and his screenwriter, John Milius, were fully aware of the plot of Die Walküre, the ingenious portrayal of the helicopter gunships as modernized, mechanized Valkyries — the music both romanticizes combat and wryly points out the absurdity of ancient notions of chivalry in a war where the killing is almost industrialized.
In the corners of my mind
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Graff assembles other quotations in the same vein, and goes on to add, wryly, ‘The funny thing, of course, is that those jeremiads were right.’
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Some observers have wryly commented that this may be because of their effectiveness.
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In its stark, relatively empty setting, Self-Portrait with Pumpkin wryly contrasts an image of the seated artist with virtuosic renderings of a gorgeous pumpkin and a large hollow log.
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It was wryly noted that the heavens had delivered the Scots from certain defeat.
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Which kicks off a wandering etymological and sartorial definition-fest on toques and beanies and the difference therein, wound around several more wryly delivered anecdotes.
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So, too, do the sanitary pioneers she tracks down and whose characters she wryly sketches with a few deft flicks of the pen.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wryly referring to the use of hempen rope for public hangings, Culpeper comments that the Saturnine plant is ‘good for something else than to make halters only’.
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He knew, says Menotti a little wryly, that it was time for a dramatic gesture.
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He should have taken his family's advice and become a surgeon or an airplane mechanic, he thought wryly.
DOLL'S EYES
