Example Sentences

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But while the score starts and ends funkily, its quiet-storm middle is slow and sticky, and the dance, sensitively following the music, sags.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2023

It ran down the surface in thick rivulets as funkily literal as they are associational.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2018

“That’s the match that the whole world will be watching,” de Bruyne said, aware the whole world figures to see something funkily fresh.

From Washington Post • Jul. 6, 2018

You need to be a mutant, and your gift must be funkily unique to you.

From The New Yorker • May 27, 2016

It sounds as though human beings handled the funkily propulsive bass, and it's all the better for that.

From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2012