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Example sentences for: nudge

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Ironists run a continual risk: if they nudge too hard and use too broad an irony, they risk sounding facetious; if they stay deadpan and use too subtle an irony, they sound in earnest and risk being taken literally.
Without laboring the point (nudge!
, the first entry one turns to is fuck, which, in keeping with the length and depth of the CDS , is what one might call a quickie entry (nudge!
The overfamiliar voices nudge Princess Mononoke closer to its American counterparts--but not by a lot.
And the expression gone with the wind antedated Margaret Mitchell's book--indeed, she so named the book because of the cliché, not the other way round; a cursory check of my Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations (1988--nudge!