Example Sentences

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When Weird Al appeared, waggling his arms zanily, long hair flapping in the hot wind, the crowd greeted him with a surge of joy.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2020

I started watching almost as a joke—I mean, come on with that title—but found myself transported by a group of artists of various temperaments and imaginations nobly and, sure, sometimes zanily, doing their best.

From Slate • Dec. 4, 2019

John Barth, awarded for “Chimera”—a trilogy of novellas that zanily recast ancient narratives—was the leading exponent of postmodern fiction.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 11, 2019

The production, wrote Holly Williams in The Independent, "pitches its audience into a zanily macabre funfair, the traverse stage littered with clapped-out bumper cars and a giant clown's head".

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2014

It uses Chapman's own audiobook narration of his zanily unreliable A Liar's Autobiography, Vol VI, first published in 1980, and melds it with many different kinds of animation.

From The Guardian • Feb. 7, 2013