Looking for sentences and phrases with the word woodenly? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
His right arm gestures outward, rather woodenly, as if it vaguely exercising for the sake of the exercise.
The eldest Stark daughter has always lacked the grit of her siblings and Turner has played the role woodenly.
It's the moment when flat pack furniture woodenly describes itself.
Inspired by the stilted and monotonous tones of an Ancient Greek chorus, Middleton woodenly delivered what must have been a jolly nerve-wracking oration with a school assembly sort of aplomb.
Examples from Classical Literature
Ewbert dropped his arms from the embrace in which he had folded her woodenly unresponsive frame, and regarded her sadly.
She played well and woodenly, and had for her reward a certain wooden satisfaction in her own performance.
She was trembling with eagerness, but the station agent stood on my other side, and he was woodenly stolid.
But he has an exalted notion of the value of things, and, moreover, he is woodenly conservative.
They remained wilfully, not to say woodenly, the young bridal pair of that romance, without the promise of novel functioning.
He climbed in woodenly, leaving his helmet on as he saw the broken window.
Mr Verloc obeyed woodenly, stony-eyed, and like an automaton whose face had been painted red.
Gordon hesitated, and then swung off woodenly to take up his new beat.
Putin smiled woodenly and nodded as Lyudmila spoke, though they both appeared more relaxed after making the announcement.
The youth, with his chin still on his breast, stood woodenly by while his companion beat ways and means out of sullen things.
Fyne's hand extended to me woodenly and bowed over it with deference.
The eponym in Siegfried was Hugo Mallet, one of the most ringingly sustained performances I have ever heard, but woodenly conductor-fixated onstage.
