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How to use archly in a sentence

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

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Elegiac and archly insightful, the quality of the writing displays a striking talent, and one that stays in the memory long after the varied merits of the performances fade.
This most expatiatory and archly loquacious of novelists is obliged to hold the reins tight.
Conversations with friends are archly intellectual, more sporting than serious.
And modern stained glass is amply precedented in the area: there are rather archly showy examples by Augusto Giacometti, a nephew of Alberto, in the Grossmünster, and by Marc Chagall, in the Fraumünster, a nearby church.
Phoebe lay down by me, and ask'd me archly if, now that I had seen the enemy, and fully considered him, I was still afraid of him?
But, from the start, D'Ambrose tells this story in an allusive, elliptical, symbolic, and archly comedic way — a way that's both derivative and original, quotational and personal.
Investment bankers archly observe that judgments on which bit of the business is the casino ought to be withheld until the end of the credit cycle.
In the 1960s, rock musician Tuli Kupferberg and his bandmates archly named their group The Fugs.
Storm Thorgerson could be inscrutable, grand and archly funny – all qualities that placed him some distance from the music industry's standard mixture of flimsy bonhomie and superficiality.
That the series archly referenced such modern-day scandals as Enron and, in its loonily bizarre finale, Halliburton, will likely be lost on most voters and viewers.
Margaret Thatcher tried to do it again, digging in her heels, lecturing archly on her achievements, illuminating our European partners on the superior virtue of her ways.
Archly the maiden smiled, and with eyes overrunning with laughter.
Examples from Classical Literature
They called so archly, so seductively, that our feet hurried toward the tent of themselves.
She stepped through it and archly looked back at him, still in the room.
When she faced Vaniman, the young cashier was regarding her archly.
He began by a demurrer, speaking archly with subtle shades of expression.
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