Example Sentences

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She passes the time relaxing in a hammock and padding tranquilly around her enclosure looking for bamboo.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2022

Andre, 37, who spoke to me tranquilly and fully clothed in a Zoom conversation from his home in Los Angeles, doesn’t think of himself as an especially brave person.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2020

My own future is very uncertain—I hope I can live tranquilly, but intensely, until the last drop of life-energy is gone.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 5, 2016

His final hours were spent tranquilly dictating the closing lines of one of his most beautiful poems.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2015

“What doesn’t go out one way will go out the other,” the man said tranquilly.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer