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How to use drolly in a sentence

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

Sentence Examples
Wilfrid Almendra unfurls a section of glimmering Arizonian desert, replaying in a drolly literal manner the poetic notion of the painted desert.
It's here that The Duke of Burgundy strikes an innovative note: the film is set in a fantastical world populated only by women, all of whom are rapt attendees of drolly dull entomology lectures.
The arresting title drolly indicates the almost Manichean worldview espoused by Ray Wylie Hubbard, grizzled veteran of the Texas singer-songwriter scene.
By contrast, the drolly philosophical title-track describes Adam's life as free from worry  or fear, but wonders where, without danger and temptation, lies his nobility?
The disintegrating relationship is drolly handled, with a goofily idiotic Spall the highlight.
Examples from Classical Literature
Partridge woodpeckers flocked in, drolly jollying each other and making much talk, sotto voce.
She seemed pleased, even grateful, which impressed me as being so drolly unusual, that I was almost suspicious.
Parliamentarianism, writes Mr. Barry OBrien drolly, was apparently becoming a respectable thing.
Then she curtseyed, smiling at him drolly, and put her hand upon her breast.
Larissa repeated her drolly jocular request, adding that Isis was the name of a terrorist organisation.
With his conversation, he drolly remarked, he paid his way into society.
Old Poundstone nudged his son in the short ribs and winked drolly.
He was off laughing again, and he did it so drolly that Emmy laughed too.
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