Get to know Drily better with 7 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like laconically or dryly.
Drily meaning
Alternative spelling of dryly.
Synonyms of Drily
Using Drily
- The main meaning on this page is: Alternative spelling of dryly.
- Useful related words include: laconically, dryly.
Context around Drily
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 2 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Drily
- In this selection, "drily" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, says, drains, certainly, away, voices and hilarious stand out and add context to how "drily" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include drily voices vibrated and in cervantes drily humorous style. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "drily" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with drily
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Thomasina drily comments, "Yes Mama, if you would have it so". (11 words)
Late in the film, the ugly reality reaches a crescendo just as the suspense drains drily away. (17 words)
Drily voices vibrated in consuming chants; there were ruckus hullaballoos or inexplicable excitement in the opposition camp everywhere. (18 words)
Robb, 5–6 As the author and literary critic Sir Victor Pritchett explained, "She was certainly drily aware that she had been given to an old husband as a reward for his professional services to a friend of her family and that the capital was on her side. (48 words)
Selma asks, her face serious, her tone as drily hilarious as it has been for the past hour, even when discussing the state of Hollywood for women and her fears that she’ll never work again. (36 words)
But asked how she deals with this reality, “I think depression really did me a solid there”, she says drily “I’ve honestly never really expected to be happy. (29 words)
Example sentences (7)
But asked how she deals with this reality, “I think depression really did me a solid there”, she says drily “I’ve honestly never really expected to be happy.
Late in the film, the ugly reality reaches a crescendo just as the suspense drains drily away.
Drily voices vibrated in consuming chants; there were ruckus hullaballoos or inexplicable excitement in the opposition camp everywhere.
Selma asks, her face serious, her tone as drily hilarious as it has been for the past hour, even when discussing the state of Hollywood for women and her fears that she’ll never work again.
Robb, 5–6 As the author and literary critic Sir Victor Pritchett explained, "She was certainly drily aware that she had been given to an old husband as a reward for his professional services to a friend of her family and that the capital was on her side.
The solemn ritual of this band of ruffians is all the more comic for being presented in Cervantes' drily humorous style.
Thomasina drily comments, "Yes Mama, if you would have it so".