Get to know Wryly better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Wryly meaning
- In a wry or sarcastic manner; ironically.
- Contortedly.
Using Wryly
- The main meaning on this page is: In a wry or sarcastic manner; ironically. | Contortedly.
- In the example corpus, wryly often appears in combinations such as: noted wryly, added wryly, wryly that.
Context around Wryly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Wryly
- In this selection, "wryly" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, noted, added, scheinert, recalls, funny and suggested stand out and add context to how "wryly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include he noted wryly and and laughing wryly at times. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "wryly" sits close to words such as aare, aarti and abl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with wryly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Peel had often spoken wryly of his eventual death. (9 words)
Many users, often wryly, took to Twitter to comment on the crash. (12 words)
Scheinert wryly recalls telling cast and crew on set: “We're not making an Oscar movie here. (17 words)
Tom Anderson, 67, has taken multiple discounted courses at the U over the past year as he works toward a degree in American Studies after a more than 30-year career with 3M — three decades he spent paying state taxes, he noted wryly. (43 words)
The wryly titled breakup tune “Political” – credited to Mann alone – gave the band its first real hit, and the band’s third album went on to draw both their first Juno nomination and the interest of major labels. (38 words)
Ghomeshi’s essay extinguishes any doubt as to whether his years in imposed exile (“the closest I come to public performance is at a neighborhood karaoke bar in New York,” he writes wryly) delivered insight, wisdom or contrition. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Scheinert wryly recalls telling cast and crew on set: “We're not making an Oscar movie here.
Wryly funny, occasionally violent, and so very sapphic, played with throwback conventions of the noir genre to make a thrilling film ahead of its time.
Wryly, he suggested that what audiences have been witnessing in his career is a kind of macabre training.
Several weeks after the 1924 story, that wryly suggested stolen automobiles and bootlegging joints hidden in the weeds, a “weed gang” was formed.
The host of a news conference about 's extradition fight wryly welcomed journalists last week to the “millionth” press briefing on his court case.
With manicured nails and laughing wryly at times, she looks much like a friend I’d have a gossip with as she explains how her weekend drinking became an obsession that set her apart.
It’s meant late nights and early morning hours fueled by a lot of coffee and plagued by furrowed brows and headaches, he noted wryly.
But he added wryly Beech's skills as a sketch artist had 'improved immeasurably', as had his memory, between a police interview in 2012 and another 2014 - a difference he put down to deliberate falsehoods by Beech.
But the bookish Lugar — as a Rhodes scholar, he earned an honors degree from Oxford in 1954 — wryly acknowledged that charisma was hardly his strong suit, and he ultimately withdrew from the 1996 race.
Certainly, not everyone benefits from a level playing field, Mr. Xi added wryly, arguing in defense of the world’s existing trade rules that allow for low tariffs, once propped up by the United States.
Many users, often wryly, took to Twitter to comment on the crash.
The wryly titled breakup tune “Political” – credited to Mann alone – gave the band its first real hit, and the band’s third album went on to draw both their first Juno nomination and the interest of major labels.
Tom Anderson, 67, has taken multiple discounted courses at the U over the past year as he works toward a degree in American Studies after a more than 30-year career with 3M — three decades he spent paying state taxes, he noted wryly.
Ghomeshi’s essay extinguishes any doubt as to whether his years in imposed exile (“the closest I come to public performance is at a neighborhood karaoke bar in New York,” he writes wryly) delivered insight, wisdom or contrition.
Vic Marks, also of these pages, offers the kind of voice you do not often hear on any media, determinedly anti-sensational voice, wryly humorous in hectoring times.
After Tadema spent two years working on the painting, his wife pointed out wryly that the infant Moses was now a toddler, and need no longer be carried.
But the Lord Chancellor wryly notes that Strephon has not presented sufficient evidence that Nature has interested herself in the matter.
He ends the story with a wryly philosophical point: If Carl Zeidler had not asked Jim Doolittle to manage his campaign, Doolittle would never have contacted me about it.
In one essay, Hesse reflected wryly on his lifelong failure to acquire a talent for idleness and speculated that his average daily correspondence exceeded 150 pages.
Peel had often spoken wryly of his eventual death.
Common combinations with wryly
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: