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How to use wryly in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word wryly? Here are some examples.

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He wrote one inimitably brilliant work, one wryly enjoyable one, some amusing pieces, and everything else is admirable but largely unreadable.
And that the most dignified thing we ageing grandes dames can do is smile wryly, surrender and follow the sun.
He would look on wryly at times when the others were carrying-on in the clubhouse about slights, real and imagined.
He also wryly acknowledges that he risks sounding like a grumpy old man pining for an overly-romanticised past.
Greene's prefaces are usually succinct, genuinely concerned with aspects of the writing process, and sometimes wryly humorous.
She recognized it as an unspoken apology and smiled wryly as she continued.
Moreover, the Machiavellian in me cannot help but wryly shake the head in perverse tribute to what the Cubic boys have pulled off.
I smiled wryly at my insomniac habitude and looked out at the window again.
But he wryly added that full control of a vehicle should always be maintained when making hand signals.
She smiled wryly to herself, thinking that perhaps he, like the local songbirds and crows, had flown south to avoid the oncoming winter.
It was wryly noted that the heavens had delivered the Scots from certain defeat.
Excellent dialogue and wryly amusing situations were wrung hard and without subtlety by the two main actors.
Surrounded by packing cases and making himself endless cups of tea, he reflects wryly on his life and work.
Some observers have wryly commented that this may be because of their effectiveness.
You need to watch the diet and, he says wryly, this is one publican that only rarely gets a chance to have a few pints.
As White wryly remarks, the Irish have been talking about revenge since they lost in Bloemfontein and Cape Town and should not need to be motivated more than they already are.
Which kicks off a wandering etymological and sartorial definition-fest on toques and beanies and the difference therein, wound around several more wryly delivered anecdotes.
One interviewee wryly observed that government has no qualms about funding advocacy directed at other levels of government.
Some of our feverish energy, we suspect wryly, is merely an escape from being quiet.
As one B. C. privacy advocate wryly noted, no court registry office has ever seen an around-the-block queue to gain access to such information!
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Examples from Classical Literature
And, not wryly but with undiscouraged faith, they vote away for the Hylans and the Hardings of each recurrent crisis.
Dark at times yet often wryly funny, this is a penetrating and convincing look inside high school life.
This drama is one of the best things on the box, despite Foyle's occasionally irritating habit of wryly turning up the corner of his mouth to make him look sceptical.
Adapted from the novel by Walter Kirn, Up In The Air is a portrait of a loveless man, which elegantly navigates a path between the bleak and the wryly amusing.
And it even wryly suggests we might do well to let the animals design the cities they share with us, privileged as they are with different and sharper sensory apparatus.
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