Example Sentences
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A rural Ohio newspaperman who had risen to U.S. senator, Harding was a reluctant compromise candidate during the 1920 Republican convention in Chicago, emerging from a proverbially smoke-filled room.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
Defensive end Calijah Kancey's cleats were covered in it, proverbially anyway.
From Fox News ● Dec. 1, 2021
That acknowledgment of darkness and past trauma made Chromatica an appropriate mood for a year that, proverbially speaking, wouldn’t stop raining on us.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2020
Virgil’s genius was quickly recognized and his later career, as well as that of his friend Horace, was partly fostered by the proverbially rich Maecenas, an ardent patron of the arts.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2017
I was the proverbially overprepared student; I had to have a standby writing utensil.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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