Example Sentences

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“People should realize that scientists die also and not make too much of this,” the family said in a statement, adding that she was “a beautiful and marvelously intelligent person.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026

Yet where that film’s sinuous sculpting of time is marvelously sly and organic, “Blue Heron” always feels a little too carefully mapped out to achieve a similarly breathtaking effect.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Song’s film is, after all, marvelously layered and rife with realism.

From Salon • Jun. 14, 2025

Alain Guiraudie’s marvelously unsentimental French thriller begins in a mood of death, one it never quite shakes as events pick up in a twisty way.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2025

How marvelously odd, I thought, to be required to pick and choose which way to go.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi