Example Sentences

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She tried to struggle up but slipped and fell again and lay there screaming maudlinly.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

To us, personally, he was maudlinly affectionate and respectful.

From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Starr, Frederick

They laugh; they dance; they embrace one another; they set to partners and waltz clumsily; they shake hands repeatedly and maudlinly.

From Captain Brassbound's Conversion by Shaw, Bernard

She even, and therein lay her final greatness, blinked at Reed's occasional profanity as concerned his accident, whereas the average woman would have wept maudlinly.

From The Brentons by Dexter, Wilson C.

Himself a former cowboy, he writes cowboy stories which prove that cowboy stories need not be as false, and as maudlinly romantic as most cowboy stories manage to be.

From Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Street, Julian