wry

Example Sentences

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Kathleen Madigan’s “The Family Thread” gifts us an hour built on the everyday chaos and wry Midwestern sensibility that define her comedy.

From Los Angeles Times

Then, with a wry smile: “Probably almost as many as churches that’ve closed.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The novel is full of these understated, wry contradictions — a decent soul with a gift for making good deals.

From Los Angeles Times

As good as Teller is as a husband in crisis, the Oscar-winning Randolph is her own commanding source of light, enough to sell this movie’s feel-good abstracts and wry commentaries on her own.

From Los Angeles Times

Even a missed overhead as she served for the title was greeted with a wry smile.

From BBC