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How to use dully in a sentence

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He made his way through the gloom to the bar, where a man he presumed to be the bartender was staring dully into the middle distance.
It was cool and dark there, and on a low table by the bed there was already a kerosene lamp burning dully through its dirty chimney.
He had no wish to sit and wait with them, to chew over the tedious details of the journey, to stare dully at the sea.
Edwards has a great opening here, but he loses momentum by going back to tax policy, which was dully batted around on the last question.
The coins glimmered in my palm, dully reflecting the dim light cast by the streetlamp overhead.
The girl had bright pink hair that dully caught the light, reflecting a million glittering sparkles.
The children looked at her dully as they used the legs of the gates as makeshift soccer goals.
Callahan's knuckles were scabbed, all cracked and red and throbbing dully when she paid attention to them.
I held out the gun for him to take, its sleek black enamel glinting dully in the fluorescent light.
In the morning, he sat on the edge of the bed, the weight of another day upon him, light sifting dully in from under the window shade.
From a faint warmth through a decided warmth it passes to a definite heat, first pleasant, then dully painful, then sharply painful.
He looked dully around, then realised that the boat was not at its berth in the marina.
The sun was a pale circle in the white sky, glinting dully on the frosty grass.
The blood thrummed dully in her eardrums, echoing throughout the caverns and sending pain shooting to her skull.
The timbals beat time dully, and the exhausted guests, overcome by drunkenness, nausea and vertigo, became silent.
His eyes stare dully from a pinched little face etched with pain and suffering.
His fingers plunked dully on the wrong key, and the young man wrenched his attention away and resumed his disjointed playing to the end of the piece.
His companion, an ash blonde wearing white stockings, white cowboy boots, and a white fur vest, stared dully into space as he sputtered.
Gravity is transformed from the constraint that holds us dully to Earth into the power that lets us fly.
But I gazed long and raptly at the wonderful textures of spongy grass, dully reflective flagstones, and dreaming concrete.
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Examples from Classical Literature
As he had crossed the threshold, Beatrix had raised her head and looked at him dully.
He gazed dully up at a lustrous, glasslike substance that arched above him.
Lorry pulled her eyes down to the cherubic little face as she parroted dully.
Charles listened dully as the curse was droned, nor was he surprised when the harridan fell, blasted by it.
The name rang savagely in the groining of the arch, echoed dully in the obscurity in which the fierce struggle went on.
She realized dully that Carlotta was there, too, pacing up and down the little room.
After that Alma moved like a sleep-walker or a man in a dream, dully and dazedly.
Through that ghastly fourteen days we had slogged dully south away from Mons, ever getting nearer Paris.
The very sound of the ice, dully yet resonantly chinking, brought a suffocating sense of nostalgia.
The sound of distant bagpipes seemed to resound dully in his ears.
The sheet, all that remained of a Japanese armored car, rang dully.
She stood by the window and looked out dully at a grey cat walking a grey fence in a grey backyard.
They advanced to the topic again and again, dully, but with exaltation.
It was black, cylindrical, glinting dully in the sun's light.
She opened her eyes slowly, and stared dully, hazily before her.
Lights burned on her till late, dully reflected in the river that tugged at her mooring-ropes.
Having nothing more to fear, having scarce anything to hope, for that he would relent there seemed no promise whatever, she lay down dully.
Lovely it was,' went on Maud, dully conscious of failure, but stippling in like an artist the little touches which give atmosphere and verisimilitude to a story.
He gloated over his victim, and his eyes flamed dully, as he swung the whip or club and listened to White Fang's cries of pain and to his helpless bellows and snarls.
In his right hand was a huge spear, about the neck a thick torque of gold, and bound on the forehead shone dully a single and enormous uncut diamond.
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