tranquilly

Example Sentences

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She passes the time relaxing in a hammock and padding tranquilly around her enclosure looking for bamboo.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2022

“Now we can sleep tranquilly, because we know the whole world is watching to make sure that we take green nickel seriously.”

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2021

My own future is very uncertain—I hope I can live tranquilly, but intensely, until the last drop of life-energy is gone.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 5, 2016

His final hours were spent tranquilly dictating the closing lines of one of his most beautiful poems.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2015

“She went to her final sleep most tranquilly, most sweetly at twelve o’clock today’ Dr. Gully had written up the cause of death as a “Bilious Fever with typhoid character!’

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman