How To Use Drily In A Sentence
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No wonder, as Mr. Hamilton drily notes, that on the wall of the Leipzig Gewandhaus (where Mendelssohn played and conducted) was Seneca's apothegm: "Res severa est verum gaudium.
What Music Has Lost
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Never mind the hole in the ceiling, " he said drily.
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Her voice was thin and reedy; her throat clicked drily as she tried to swallow.
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Besides "-- drily --" an unattached bachelor is considerably more in demand as a painter of society women's portraits than a Benedict.
The Moon out of Reach
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Ruth stared into the painted face, now sundrily cracked by the coursing tears.
The Ragged Edge
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He prescribed me the usual sudorific, ordered a mustard-plaster to be put on, very deftly slid a five-rouble note up his sleeve, coughing drily and looking away as he did so, and then was getting up to go home, but somehow fell into talk and remained.
A Sportsman's Sketches
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All three works on this disc are idiomatically performed and decently, if rather drily, recorded.
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And "-- drily --" it was just like him, too, to see that the marriage settlement arrangements were all quite water-tight.
The Moon out of Reach
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As the report notes drily: 'This study is likely to be controversial.
Times, Sunday Times
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Accomplishment of Singing, under the auspicious smile of the goddess, take possession, sundrily, of her children; and the two great arts of
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
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I know it sounds silly, but when I get to the beach I feel like a kid again." "We noticed, " she said drily.
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As he made his way with some difficulty through the throng, he was aware that he brushed against a man in a great peruke, who, despite the heat of the house, was wrapped in an old roquelaure tawdrily laced; also that the man was keeping stealthy pace with him, and that when he at last reached his station the cloaked figure fell into place immediately behind him.
Audrey
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The latter work is done drily, with humor of the most deadpan variety; one never believes that this apprentice truly was in danger.
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Her voice was thin and reedy; her throat clicked drily as she tried to swallow.
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You are funny, Molly," says Erica drily, as her daughter whips forth another wisecrack.
Erica Jong: Sex and motherhood
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His Lordship is not quite so profligate of his money,' said Thackeray drily.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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Her name was Kate and she came from Toronto, a frank and drily witty woman, the ideal pick-me-up in such circumstances.
THE QUEST FOR K
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As Stout drily explains midway through the book, For all his vaunted speed, the man Paul Shannon would later dub 'Smoky Joe' Wood, owing to the speed of his fastball, was a disappointment.
Steve Kettmann: Book Review: An Irresistible Look Back on Fenway Park's First Season, Not Just for Sox Fans
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'Well, at least it's not purple,' she commented drily.
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The dialogue is laconic, direct, sometimes drily humorous.
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Each room merited one 25-watt bulb hanging from the ceiling; as Paul drily observed, they affected the afternoon gloom about as well as a birthday candle.
A Covert Affair
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I know it sounds silly, but when I get to the beach I feel like a kid again." "We noticed, " she said drily.
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Ruth spread out the ruffled skirt, sundrily torn and soiled.
The Ragged Edge
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He made it into his tenth decade cheerful: drily witty, sociable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her clothes were soiled and crumpled, sundrily torn; her hair was in disorder, and tendrils hung about her temples and forehead -- thick black hair, full of purple tones in the sunlight -- for she had not surrendered peacefully to this incarceration.
The Place of Honeymoons
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He'd thought it was something you could be drily adult about, the way Mr Thomas had been adult about Mr Cartwright's colostomy.
PROSPECT HILL
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‘I am a man of resource, and my name impresses others more than it does you, it’s all been arranged,’ he revealed drily.
The Carides Pregnancy
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Breitmann had entered the employ of the admiral for the very purpose for which M. Ferraud had journeyed sundrily into the cellar and beaten futilely on the chimney.
A Splendid Hazard
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My opportunities of social intercourse "-- drily --" are somewhat limited.
The Hermit of Far End
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The dialogue is laconic, direct, sometimes drily humorous.
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Another noted drily: 'More like he gets fi rst pick of new interns.
Times, Sunday Times
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I remember looking at my teacher, who remains an impeccable wit to this day, and seeing her drily respond to the outrage that truly transformative literature provokes.
Farai Chideya: Why I'm Leaving Journalism... For Now
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The transcendentally synthetic quality of this music, blending styles as diverse as the Prophetiae Sibyllarum and the late madrigals, stands in the sharpest possible contrast to what was in other hands already becoming the drily academic stile antico.
Archive 2009-06-01
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The catalogue entry drily notes that the dress is a form of product placement: "a virtual advertisement of the duke's revival of the silk industry in Florence".
Bronzino's Medici portraits – review
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‘There was also,’ said Aunt Emily, drily, ‘the matter that you have, apparently, skipped a few classes.’
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This is possibly the most acutely perceptive (and drily humorous) political film ever made.
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Never mind the hole in the ceiling, " he said drily.
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The journalist noted drily: 'I can remind you.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even in a prison setting, noted Lucy Durmast drily to herself, the habit of meiosis didn't desert the medical profession.
A DEAD LIBERTY
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That is quite possible," drily; "but you owe something to yourself and me.
Winding Paths
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‘There was also,’ said Aunt Emily, drily, ‘the matter that you have, apparently, skipped a few classes.’
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As he drily says :'I got into some trouble.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even in a prison setting, noted Lucy Durmast drily to herself, the habit of meiosis didn't desert the medical profession.
A DEAD LIBERTY
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Barnett replied drily that Davis's best option was to feed the gingerbread to his bears.
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This is possibly the most acutely perceptive (and drily humorous) political film ever made.
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He looked sideways at Sylvia for a moment and then he said kind of drily,
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908
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She heard him dial, and speak briefly and drily, almost as though similar rescue operations landed on his doorstep every night.
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To be free of outward distraction, he shut his eyes and concentrated upon the scraps she had given him; and shortly, with his eyes still closed, he began to describe Ruth's island: the mountain at one end, with the ever-recurring scarves of mist drifting across the lava-scarred face; the jungle at the foot of it; the dazzling border of white sand; the sprawling store of the trader and the rotting wharf, sundrily patched with drift-wood; the native huts on the sandy floor of the palm groves; the scattered sandalwood and ebony; the screaming parakeets in the plantains; the fishing proas; the mission with its white washed walls and barren frontage; the lagoon, fringed with coco palms, now ruffled emerald, now placid sapphire.
The Ragged Edge
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That is surprising." — "Hardly," I said drily.
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`You didn't exactly give us much," the scientist returned drily.
PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
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That is surprising." — "Hardly," I said drily.
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It might sound drily 'doctrinaire', but a core set of principles exist to help you to make sense of turmoil.
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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Even in a prison setting, noted Lucy Durmast drily to herself, the habit of meiosis didn't desert the medical profession.
A DEAD LIBERTY
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Dey will like one anot'er all de petter for pein 'a little tifferent, den," answered the Colonel, drily.
Satanstoe
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His Lordship is not quite so profligate of his money,' said Thackeray drily.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
