Example Sentences

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Music-filled and spikily edited, “Kneecap” finds rude wit and edge to underscore its needle-drop righteousness; that it sustains its level so exuberantly is remarkable, especially considering how hit-and-miss these self-mythologizing projects often are.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2024

Mr Miles later managed to type the words "I congratulate Vaughan" on social media, but rather spikily in the same post observed that in politics "trust must be continually earned".

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2024

Colman is shattering as Leda, who is spikily self-protective and deeply vulnerable: A scene in which she refuses to cede her space on the beach to Nina’s family is a chamber piece of passive-aggressive subtext.

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2021

Their stylistic provenance is indicated by their names: Ronnette, Crystal and Chiffon, the smartly synchronized yet spikily individualistic team of Ari Groover, Salome Smith and Joy Woods.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2019

He curled spikily around her neck and they towed the wagon across the grassland, up to the tangled vines and ferns of the rain forest.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr