Example Sentences

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In her art, Ms. Smith critiqued the American Dream, but bittersweetly, with sympathy for those who chase it.

From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2024

Standout track California united country and trance, and found Boucher surveying the gulf between her identity and her reputation: “The things they see in me, I cannot see myself,” she sang bittersweetly.

From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2020

The show itself, based on a graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel and directed on the road as in New York by Sam Gold, is bracingly honest, touchingly wise and bittersweetly funny.

From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2017

They recall the woman they both loved—the fiancée’s mother, named Annette—and their recollections are depicted in a bold and intricate series of flashbacks that are as bittersweetly melodramatic as they are ingeniously realized.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 29, 2016

In the connected short stories of Another Marvelous Thing, she has once again bittersweetly doomed her lovers to live out their liaison as if it were an endless Valentine's Day.

From Time Magazine Archive