Example Sentences

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And then, nonthreateningly, he’d say, Let me try.

From Slate • Jul. 29, 2023

He’s a pleasingly inoffensive, nonthreateningly masculine, apple-pie type, but like so many all-American commodities, there’s more lurking in that designation.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2021

And as Jerry, the nonthreateningly named but unmistakably lethal bloodsucker in "Fright Night," Farrell looks like he's having the time of his 400-year-old life.

From Salon • Aug. 18, 2011