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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.”

  • 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.


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