Example Sentences

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Will anyone so rawly expose Evan’s desperation, self-loathing and ultimate contrition ever again?

From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2019

He seemed more fragile and rawly emotional, visibly tearing up when Winfrey asked about how he and Jackson allegedly exchanged wedding vows.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2019

Baker, Bridgers, and Dacus all make folk-rock music that’s rawly poetic, personal, and introspective.

From Slate • Nov. 2, 2018

These 1979 photographs are also featured in “Art for the Street,” serving up a sidewalk-level time capsule of a rawly ungentrified downtown.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2018

Their bodies, corpse-white or suffused with a pallid golden light or rawly tanned by the sun, gleamed with the wet of the sea.

From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, James