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Example sentences for: wry

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

Some critics say the 40-year-old novel, about an adulterous Jewish refugee in New York, illustrates the Yiddish master's wry humor and enchanting storytelling.
The collection covers the same ground as her two previous books--the immigrant and biracial experience in America--and she covers it with "equal measures of pathos and wry fun ...
It was said with wry humor, and Prudie felt about as tall as a toadstool and will never again be careless in her address, which is, after all, what you're after, isn't it?
More important, he distills from the novel a mournfully wry fable on the all-consuming convolutions of jealousy.
(Wry commentary or poor word choice?