Example Sentences

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The Grizzlies got the chance to choose the Lakers player who had to enter the game to take World Peace’s spot on the jump ball, and they grinningly chose Kobe, who lost the tip.

From Washington Times • Mar. 23, 2016

Its offerings are open bids for nostalgia, like toasted milk ice cream packed between brownies mosaic-ed in broken Oreos, grinningly sweet.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2015

On Fox News, Bill Hemmer likened the contest to a Bengals-Browns game, and Megyn Kelly grinningly announcing her confusion about the simile.

From Slate • Mar. 7, 2012

Any fears of a dull, worthy affair were soon banished as she grinningly describes "collaborating with people who are dead" and fleshes out the music with tales of the poets' lives.

From The Guardian • May 26, 2010

The very faces of the gargoyles, impenetrable and calm, or grinningly grotesque, gave the fancy visible outward expression.

From The Mayor of Warwick by Hopkins, Herbert M. (Herbert Müller)