Example Sentences

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They had been watching an appositely shattering production of The Plough and the Stars by Sean O’Casey, the great playwright’s complex commentary on the Easter Rising that begat the Irish republic a century ago.

From The Guardian • Mar. 26, 2016

Ruskin had defended the painter against critical attacks, and soon Effie was modelling for his appositely titled picture The Order of Release.

From The Guardian • Mar. 29, 2013

Well, as one character says all too appositely, “I have a pretty good idea what’s going to happen.”

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2010

Author Pettit writes suavely, ironically, often appositely, of philosophy, Christianity, "the facts of life," protects himself from censorship by his gymnastic euphemisms, Gallic urbanity.

From Time Magazine Archive

All this is surely part of an author's lifework; so I am writing appositely.

From My Life as an Author by Tupper, Martin Farquhar