Example Sentences

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Even the most cynical internet users speak semiseriously about our posts being “on brand” or “off brand.”

From New York Times • May 1, 2018

They talked about it, the three of them, semiseriously but somewhat distractedly as they did other things throughout the rest of the morning.

From Time • Feb. 9, 2010

The gentlemen took the Harvard-Yale football game semiseriously, spoke an elliptical and charming language for which Playwright Barry became famed, were a little disillusioned as to Life but very stoical about it all.

From Time Magazine Archive