Example Sentences

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"That is not typical for a professor," he tells me phlegmatically.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2022

Photograph: Jan Kruger-IDI/IDI via Getty Images Joe Root looked on phlegmatically, clipping boundaries whenever he could.

From The Guardian • Apr. 3, 2016

The remark annoyed some of the Pakistanis, who viewed it as a crude characterization of a politically delicate process; others took it more phlegmatically.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2012

"When two people are tied together you just have to find a way through it," she adds phlegmatically.

From The Guardian • Sep. 4, 2010

"How shall it be finished?" inquired Belshazzar, phlegmatically.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Potter, Margaret Horton