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Example sentences for: primly

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In class, her legs cross primly under her desk while her hand snaps up like a Sieg Heil . When she stamps out "Tracy Flick for President" buttons on her hand-operated button press, she sets her big jaw and grits her teeth and bears down as if eliminating her rivals with every squeeze.
Yet even in this most bizarre of Updike's novels, the guilty hero eventually finds himself sitting primly in a pew, listening to a lady minister declaim on Mary Magdalene and her womanly tears.
The movement, primly called the consortium, started four years ago by CUNY, Northeastern University, the University of Maryland and St. Mary's Law School in Texas.
--Prudie, primly