nonsensically
Example Sentences
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The film exhibits no sense of how to stage a surprise, settling instead for hackish tricks like having a character nonsensically appear in, say, the middle of a deserted street as though arriving via drone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
"Someone came up to me speaking nonsensically, I didn't understand what he was saying," he said.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026
I want to skip ahead for a second, because against everything I experienced previously while watching Hallmark's nonsensically titled holiday movie "Hanukkah on Rye," I cried at the end.
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2022
Now, this vision has been nonsensically ported into the midcentury brain of Marilyn Monroe.
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2022
Charles took a swallow of his drink and ran up another octave, trilling nonsensically on the keys with his right hand.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
