Example Sentences

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The Japanese ready-to-wear brand of Mame Kurogouchi delves edgily between past and present, mixing traditional dressmaking with new technologies.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2023

No sooner are we ensconced in the soothing world that Lydia edgily inhabits than we discover that all those nervous twitches and superstitions aren’t the mannerisms of an egocentric artist.

From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2022

That kind of haunted innocence is what Huezo is after, the movie’s particular setting of isolation and menace ringing cinematographer Dariela Ludlow’s edgily handheld frame like a barbed wire.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2021

They retired edgily to the dressing room, noting that their mothers were in the audience and would be able to tell them how Larkin looked.

From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2017

James glanced in disbelief and aggravation at Laurent and exchanged another brief look with Victoria, whose eyes still flickered edgily from face to face.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer