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Sentence count:98+11Posted:2016-10-24Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: askewcontortedcrookeddistortedMeaning: [raɪ]  adj. 1. humorously sarcastic or mocking 2. bent to one side. 
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31. Yet friends who play poker with him at a monthly game say he is quick-witted and extremely wry.
32. He was like a chameleon, she thought with wry admiration, able to adapt at will to any situation.
33. Little Nemo falling out of his bed at the end of every strip still brings a wry smile.
34. Suddenly, Lydia's mouth twisted in a wry smile, her eyes holding a spark of understanding.
35. Leaning back, he began to reach for the packet of cigars, then made a wry face and changed his mind.
36. And he retains the sense of wry humour which he reckons every newspaperman needs, if only to keep him sane.
37. A subdued man said bye and thanks to a wry cast.
38. Knowing this[sentencedict.com], Googol tried to be wry about his own feelings and eschewed any dandified garb such as Jaq now sported.
39. Growing older, she decided with a wry smile, had its advantages.
40. This is a delicious comedy full of wry observations and delightful fun-poking at the world of movie-making.
41. I look back on those emotions with wry amusement but also with a certain amount of self-respect.
42. Despite the wry observations about the differences between working-class Hispanics and upper-class whites, this is not a story about culture clashes.
43. But former Elland Road favourite Eddie Gray could be forgiven a wry smile at today's free-spending ways.
44. Perhaps, to some extent, she thought with wry amusement, she owed her professional success to Jake.
45. The wry twist of amusement around his lips finally proved impossible to resist.
46. His artistic talent combines with a wry humour - a man on a toilet is hidden in each of the intricate drawings.
47. How patiently you tangle with wry triangles, clothing the family of nobodies who loiter in our dark.
48. A dash of wry cynicism might have helped another woman, but that was not Franca's way.
48. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and create good sentences.
49. What a Christmas party she thought, with a wry little smile.
50. Familiar and wry, but just as fierce in its own way.
51. Among others accruing from its overwhelming rush of energy is a wry self-perspective which brings balance.
52. Red Rock West is a slow-burn thriller, wry and dry, implausible and quietly confident about itself.
53. His brilliance was carried lightly, and he possessed a wry sense of humour.
54. Yet they are saved from sentimentality by the wry humour of both text and pictures.
55. Hearing her praises lavishly extolled, she gave a sad, wry smile and returned to Terry's room to clear up.
56. She relaxed and told Jay about her life, with the wry humour of a survivor.
57. But these, she reflected with a wry smile, were desperate times.
58. However, wry humour was not a quality I detected in the lady.
59. Iyer is a hybrid being or rather, to use his wry term, a mongrel.
60. Somehow, he derived a strange, wry satisfaction from this thought.
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