Example Sentences

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Thankfully, Kristine Froseth adds pep as a bimbo who hasn’t yet learned how to talk as leadenly as everyone else.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Fletcher likes to coin leadenly literal terms like “Sorrow Resolver” for the “inventions” he identifies in various texts.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2021

In the historical regions and kingdoms of Iberia, today leadenly called “autonomous communities,” we went to Aragón, Navarra, Vizcaya, León, Castilla la Nueva, Castilla la Vieja, Valencia, Murcia, and Andalucía, but not to Extremadura.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2020

The orchestral playing was unusually clumpy, leadenly conducted by Michele Mariotti.

From The Guardian • May 25, 2013

The Third, suddenly without the assistance of his anti-grav, crashed into the fence and dropped leadenly to the metalled surface.

From Evil Out of Onzar by Ganes, Mark