Example Sentences

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Even ideas about what constitutes comedy are cloudily divisive.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only the final curtain brings light to his cloudily creased forehead.

From Time Magazine Archive

It dawned cloudily; the morning was bright and dour in fits, with little spurts of rain and a rattle of distant thunder like uneasy hoofs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Magda stepped forward, the filmy draperies of the dress in which she was to dance floating cloudily about her as she moved.

From The Lamp of Fate by Pedler, Margaret

He had the extraordinary sensation of floating lightly in space that was quiet and profoundly dark—and still he was cloudily aware of footsteps ringing hollow on the bare floor of the other room.

From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney