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How to use lamely in a sentence

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

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Now as then, the opposition party finds itself stuck in a seemingly endless cycle of lamely reacting to the President's initiatives.
Elea concluded lamely inwardly cursing her inability to say what was in her heart.
They are granting patents, but they are lamely trying to deny that these are food additives.
He dummies Beye and has so much time and space to play with, it's inevitable he chips the ball lamely into the grateful hands of Runje.
Their choreographed turning of backs left me speechless and moveless so I limped to my lamely un-costumed friend and told him that I was leaving.
When he did find an inch of space, John Hartson's return pass fell lamely short.
When you're lifting or unloading a laundry basket, don't bend over lamely from the waist to grab the basket or clothes.
The fifth regular polyhedron, the dodecahedron, was left over, so Plato proposed rather lamely that the god used it up for decorating the universe.
He made no attempt to return to power and lamely apologised for any hurt he said he might have caused his compatriots.
Faced with such a lamely one-sided resolution, I abstained from voting.
Gatto lamely maintained that Valle had just been checking the system.
But, these experts pointed out, ignoring a bankruptcy filing entirely carries risks as well by appearing to be desperate or lamely trying to pull a fast one on your customers.
He lamely tried to lie his way out of the situation, but he wasn't really trying and no-one believed him.
Lamely suave, spouting banalities about pop music and unconscious of his savage condescension toward women, he's a rancid summation of the Playboy ethic.
Examples from Classical Literature
It was some time before he answered the question and then he did so lamely.
I lamely murmured some inanity, of which she took not the slightest notice.
The wolf leaped lamely back, losing its footing and falling in its weakness.
She ended lamely, a little quiver in her own voice as she thought of the three men, upon whom she depended for protection, wandering in the depth of that awful forest.
All fight was now out of the bull, and, though it was no vital thrust, he trotted lamely what of the sword that stuck through him, in one side and out the other.
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