Example Sentences

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This is “the age of the art fair,” the critic Dave Hickey declared in a 2007 lecture, not entirely sanguinely.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2024

Our first introduction to Miller is him standing in the almond farms under the acres of trees and buzzing bees; he sanguinely states that that’s the ‘sound of money’.

From Scientific American • Sep. 1, 2013

"I had parted," as he sanguinely puts it, "with a lot of my living matter."

From The Guardian • Mar. 15, 2013

Others sanguinely point to their trim physiques, a result of going up and down the stairs each day.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2011

It was as if the build-a-thorax gene had incorrectly been commanded in the wrong compartment—and had sanguinely launched its command.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee