Example Sentences

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Another veteran says, gnomically, “I can also say that Dilma was honest. But a good cook is not one who cooks to her own taste—she cooks to please those who will be eating.”

From The New Yorker • Dec. 13, 2019

Wu is generally reluctant to talk about her family, particularly her mother, whom she has gnomically described as “whimsical.”

From The New Yorker • Sep. 16, 2019

Barcelona were all old money and entitlement, Rijkaard having gnomically wandered from playing into managing, failed, and been rewarded with a top job.

From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2017

“These things can’t be studied,” he replies, gnomically.

From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2017

All poets and philosophers and orators have used it and have attempted to explain things gnomically.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch