deadpan

Example Sentences

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Townsend was particularly deadpan on Thursday and no wonder.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

But Johnson is nothing if not a punchy ringmaster of deadpan humor and his grab-bag mindset generates enough goodwill to appreciate the DIY brashness of it all.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

“End of Beginning” doesn’t appear in the show, but Keery is a perennial fan favorite, thanks to his gravity-defying hair and deadpan one-liners.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026

Rapaport barks in the same scene, forcing teammate Ron Funches to deadpan, “You’re playing a game right now.”

From Salon • Jan. 15, 2026

“Well,” said Curie, with deadpan irony, “how proud your sponsoring scythe must be to have the first perfect pupil in human history.”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman