Example Sentences

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Residents pridefully point to their school board’s unanimous vote to rename their local high school from T.C.

From Washington Post • May 7, 2022

They don’t invite the viewer into their world as much as they stand pridefully over it.

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2021

He recalled how orchard farmers in Iraq pridefully shared their pomegranates, tomatoes and melons.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2011

But nearly all of those unwieldy looking crates on wheels are habitations, as legitimately and pridefully owned as any picket-fenced, split-level ranch.

From Time Magazine Archive

At some point he gets up, laboriously removing his shoes and socks, and walks calf-deep into the water, regarding the surroundings with his hands on his hips, his chin thrust pridefully into the air.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri