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sunnily

  • a word derived from sunny.

Example Sentences

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The longest-running fantasy on TV sunnily depicts the American commoner’s relationship with the ruling class, and vice versa.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026

Orlean writes of facing health scares and losing people, but she emerges sunnily from them.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2025

All begins sunnily, however, in the year 1899, when Evelyn, a self-confessed hack writer of travel books, with one failed novel to his name, marries an American heiress.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

The latter sunnily if tentatively addressed climate change, proposing collective action to “push back the coming ti-i-i-de.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 26, 2022

When Georgina’s order arrived, a pile of red raw beef, an egg sunnily splayed on top of it, Obinze tried not to look at it as he ate, otherwise he might be tempted to vomit.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie