Example Sentences

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And as Martin, Whishaw is as Britishly brittle-yet-vulnerable as only he can be, the stoic, sad-eyed cuckold trying to rise above and move on from the fray.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2023

There is “no call for national unity,” he Britishly snapped, with a concerned, reporting-from-a-colonial-warzone furrow on his brow.

From Washington Post • Jun. 1, 2020

Those provisions would be replaced with what the Brady amendment, mysteriously and Britishly, refers to only as “alternative arrangements.”

From The New Yorker • Jan. 31, 2019

"SEA-AGH-UHL," he repeated, Britishly, probably not meaning to make a comment on his own vaguely accented singing voice.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 11, 2010

Listless, uninterested, Britishly enduring what she could not escape, the little Lady Alene had made not the slightest effort to mitigate the circumstances of her temporary fate.

From Quick Action by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)