Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Even ideas about what constitutes comedy are cloudily divisive.

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

Now, by means of astronomical History, we ascertain, cloudily, that some such phænomena have occurred.

From Eureka: A Prose Poem by Poe, Edgar A.

He walked to and fro in the starlight, swelling, with his head up and his mane of black hair cloudily flying over his shoulders as he turned.

From The Leatherwood God by Howells, William Dean