Example Sentences

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Laconically, White said, "We got a few more to go."

From Time Magazine Archive

Laconically acknowledging the ship's dwindling fuel supplies, Flight Director Neil Hutchinson explained: "We are in a finite situation, and the longer you wait the fewer options you have."

From Time Magazine Archive

Laconically, Johnson radioed Edwards tower, made certain that the radar trackers still carried him on their screens.

From Time Magazine Archive

Laconically, "I am the Boy at Mugby," he announces.

From Charles Dickens as a Reader by Kent, Charles Foster

Laconically: “The horses have quit us; we’re afoot.”

From The Man from the Bitter Roots by Lockhart, Caroline