Example sentences for: dryly

How can you use “dryly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • She can be a great movie actress, but a key to that greatness is how her dryly sardonic voice--with its edge of neurotic insecurity--plays against her ethereal features and brings her down to earth.

  • The Times dryly offered that Tripp's self-portrayal "might strain credulity."

  • The NYT 's coverage of Hungary's celebration dryly mentions "a journalist" getting "belted" twice in a minute by a reveler and then hit again by another.

  • For all of Barcelona’s exuberant architecture, the city’s modern district is a model of rationalist urban planning, a rigid geometric grid dryly called “the Extension.”

  • ' ” First published in 1975, this dryly written paper provides much of the analytical information needed to counter the stereotypical “hysterical fuss” reaction.


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