Example sentences for: dryly

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

  • Carrie Fisher, a k a Princess Leia, dryly reminisces about her metal bikini and crush on Harrison Ford during the filming of the original trilogy but says she can't even remember what the third installment was called.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • They dismiss her as a mere "wardrobe consultant" who has shuffled Gore's "shirt-and-tie combination," instructed him to wear "brown, olive, and tan," and told him "to wear different colored suits and all that"--evidently to no effect, since, as Cohen dryly observes, "polls have yet to record the difference."


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