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

“There is blame on both sides,” say the observers, oracularly, and this most superficial of all superficial generalizations is supposed to be an impartial and exhaustive summary.

From A New Atmosphere by Hamilton, Gail

So they continued to shake their heads and declare oracularly that “Ingelow went too far.”

From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram

“Say! it hasn’t made ‘softies’ of ’em, this scout business,” declared Godey oracularly.

From A Scout of To-day by Hornibrook, Isabel