droll

Example Sentences

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I like the free-associative nature of her humor, the droll precision of her speech, and the fact that, while I know she will zig and zag, I never know which way she’ll turn.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

But they also find droll humor in the artifices and absurdities that some see in the genre.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

But no matter—a tail has been added by the sixth page, our first introduction to Ms. Shaloshvili’s droll sensibility.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

Buzz has it that this British comedy is as strange, lovely, droll and surprising as last year’s Sundance premiere “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” a movie I’ve been raving about ever since.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

Every bit of it—its spindly legs, its chronically puzzled expression, its comical oven-mitt antlers—looks like some droll evolutionary joke.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson