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Example sentences for "said dryly"

  • I considered a Dalrymple able to manage a woman,” he said dryly.

  • Woman, ye dinna ken the larger issues,” he said dryly.

  • Macdonald o’ Glencoe is below,” he said dryly.

  • I have accepted the mission," he said dryly, "and I mean to carry it out.

  • The Court of Inquiry has felt no such scruples," he said dryly.

  • Very well,' he said dryly, his color rising.

  • I want to make a few notes,' he said dryly, when it was arranged; 'I should be glad to satisfy myself.

  • I have very little sanguineness of any sort in my composition,' he said dryly.

  • I fancy Miss Barrington has something more to tell you," he said dryly.

  • Then," he said dryly, "we'll give you a chance of helping us to put the handcuffs on him.

  • It is," he said dryly, "only a little idea of mine.

  • My lad," he said dryly, "the police trooper who gets advancement is the one that carries out his orders and never questions them, until he can show that they are wrong.

  • He said dryly: "What do you wish me to do?

  • Talking of brotherhood, sir," he said dryly, "would you go so far as to say that a new potato is the brother of a bean?

  • I might certainly have guessed it," I said dryly.

  • Ay," he said dryly, "there's a wheen gey cuddies in Barbie!

  • It seems to me that we are taking a liberty in discussing Miss Deringham's affairs," he said dryly.

  • The dollar does not appear to retain its usual influence in this part of Canada," he said dryly.

  • Well," he said dryly, "it means a good deal less to one of us than it would have done a few weeks ago.

  • Well," he said dryly, "it seems to me that the poor man should do a little of the holding off himself.

  • Well," he said dryly, "I don't figure you will.

  • Well," he said dryly, "a man would have to get up tolerably early if he wanted to come in ahead of you.

  • My lad," he said dryly, "the police trooper who gets advancement is the one that carries out his orders and never questions them until he can show that they are wrong.

  • Like our friend there,' I said dryly, pointing to the senseless form we were leaving.

  • He is a member of the Council of Safety,' he said dryly.

  • You would not call it one,' he said dryly, 'if you were once in the leather.

  • Let's be sure no mouse is born," I said dryly.

  • I beg pardon for intruding," I said dryly, "but the fact is that it's almost if not quite bedtime.

  • I can be of no assistance to you, Mr. Ballard," I said dryly.

  • It doesn't in the least, Mr. Ballard," I said dryly.

  • There's no doubt that he loves us," I said dryly.

  • He smiled, then frowned "Tempora mutantur," he said dryly.

  • Just to get a minute or two extra start," he said dryly.

  • Not unless men are imbeciles too," he said dryly.

  • The British Government will not distress itself about me," he said dryly.

  • Even after the fees ceased," he said dryly.

  • Just so,' he said dryly, and I thought he watched me with an odd look in his eyes.

  • It took me some finding,' he said dryly, 'but I've ways and means.

  • I didn't notice any,' he said dryly, and was off before I could get more out of him.


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "said dryly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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