Example Sentences

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Some hall of fame snubs are explicable – hats off to the website doughtily campaigning on behalf of R Kelly – and others suggest the voters may have strict musical tastes.

From The Guardian • Apr. 19, 2018

West Ham spent much of the second half penned back defending their penalty area doughtily while their opponents played pinball around them.

From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2015

Many researchers cite Harvard’s probe as further proof of science’s self-correcting mechanisms, and praise students for doughtily standing up to an authority figure of Dr Hauser’s distinction.

From Economist • Aug. 26, 2010

Skipper Shakib waits mournfully under the lid and defends doughtily.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2010

We waited for some twenty minutes for a lull; at the auspicious moment every throat was strained by a screaming shout, and the black backs bent doughtily to their work.

From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir