Example Sentences

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The men’s reluctant alliance reaches its usual climax beneath Roxanne’s balcony, where her voice and Cyrano’s — which she mistakes for Christian’s — dovetail in a soaringly lovely duet.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2022

Ms. Dargis added, “What makes Minnie — on the page and now on the screen — greater than any one girl is how she tells her own story in her own soaringly alive voice.”

From New York Times • May 12, 2016

Then he spoke soaringly of the “basketball ring” before him.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 27, 2016

Housed in an architectural fantasia—the St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel—that was designed by the restaurant’s Victorian namesake, the Gilbert Scott is a soaringly pilastered throwback to the glory days of the British Empire.

From Architectural Digest • Apr. 6, 2015

Once free of them, her spirits rose soaringly.

From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Oemler, Marie Conway