[
UK
/pˈɔɪnjəntli/
]
[ US /ˈpɔɪnjəntɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈpɔɪnjəntɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
in a poignant or touching manner
she spoke poignantly
How To Use poignantly In A Sentence
- Poignantly stated and played, the two guitarists spread out and cover the space.
- Her tragic death, poignantly captured on grainy mobile telephone footage, has flashed around the world. Times, Sunday Times
- Jewish life is poignantly described in Wiesel's journal, "The Jews of Silence".
- Like Whitman's poetry, Elvrum's lyrics are often as elementary as a child's jejune rambling, and yet, in their simplicity, they're sturdy, sophisticated, and poignantly inquisitive.
- Lanegan's personal narrative, the euphoric highs and ravaged lows of the junkie, the fretful pining of the love incompetent and the poetic musings of the maverick outsider, are poignantly realised.
- To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. Erich Fromm
- Their bipedality is dramatically confirmed by the poignantly evocative set of footprints discovered by Mary Leakey in fossilized volcanic ash. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
- she spoke poignantly
- It ends poignantly but perfectly, like a well-crafted short story. Times, Sunday Times
- Here, in the debilitating heat, breathing in the thick scent of the frangipani trees which shade the graves, a grim episode of 20th century history becomes poignantly and powerfully vivid.