Example Sentences

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“I told him starchily, ‘I interviewed Paul Newman and didn’t play that tape for my girlfriends.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2025

The ceiling was unbreached, the man said, and added, a little starchily, that the excrescence clearly was what it appeared to be.

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2021

But didn’t come out of the evening seeming like the film had won anything just because, solemnly and starchily, it was “time.”

From Slate • Mar. 3, 2014

That interdiction is somewhat new, some foreign critics starchily note, since France is known to have made payments to foreign hostage-takers in the past.

From Time • Jan. 12, 2013

A little dainty old lady took care of me, moving starchily with a silver tea service on a tray and bringing me a glass of elderberry wine each evening for my health’s sake.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson