Example Sentences

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Why not have one of them declare to Green, oracularly: “I can see you know how to say farewell to all this. To everything”?

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2018

When Democrats accusingly pointed out that Dirksen had voted against both proposals last spring, he oracularly confided: "I freely confess my sins of omission and commission."

From Time Magazine Archive

“She’ll clear up before noon,” Nelson had oracularly declared a moment before.

From Four Afloat Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Water by Barbour, Ralph Henry

To my amazement and amusement a self-satisfied, but very good man, instantly and oracularly replied, “Bonar—without doubt—Bonar.”

From Tennyson and His Friends by Various

A thoroughbred dog," he said oracularly, "is either the best dog on earth, or else he is the worst.

From Lad: A Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson