sagely
Example Sentences
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You might roll your eyes at the quasi-hippie assertion, but 100 pages later, you will nod your head sagely in agreement.
From Salon
Murakami gestures to the walls before him, nodding his head sagely.
From Los Angeles Times
At one point, Mr. Loomis quotes his protagonist sagely predicting, “we’ll have a depression . . . and it will be the end of an era.”
“It is for howling, though,” said Beowulf sagely.
From Literature
Netflix sagely announced that “The Sandman” would end after Season 2.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
