Example Sentences

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Said he chestily: "From now on, we dictate."

From Time Magazine Archive

The thinning blond hair is no longer so carefully brushed across the balding scalp, and every now & then he coughs chestily.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dad could go too far in this thing, I told myself chestily.

From The Range Dwellers by Bower, B. M.

"Oh, I am a winner on ideas," vaunted the clerk chestily.

From Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley by Maniates, Belle Kanaris