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
Andre, 37, who spoke to me tranquilly and fully clothed in a Zoom conversation from his home in Los Angeles, doesn’t think of himself as an especially brave person.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2020
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
They kept coming, and seemed to go right through me, and then I realized he was gone, and I was now on the creature’s back, rising tranquilly through the water as it glinted around us.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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