dryly

Example Sentences

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Mr. Herzog, who with his intensely dramatic yet dryly matter-of-fact vocal stylings lends the feature his typically scintillating narration, follows him on a journey to Namibia and Angola in search of the ghost elephants.

From The Wall Street Journal

It dryly captured my sense of immense good fortune that such a beauty had signed on with me.

From The Wall Street Journal

"I'm scraping," he chuckled dryly, saying his family has cut back on eating out and going on longer drives.

From Barron's

“I don’t talk to other shale execs anymore,” he said dryly in an interview with The Wall Street Journal last year.

From The Wall Street Journal

“There’s no stage at which profound public rejection isn’t in the offing,” he says, dryly.

From Los Angeles Times