Example Sentences

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Refreshingly, it began the opinion with facts about how climate change is ravaging Montana and threatens everybody’s way of life.

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2024

Refreshingly, there is not a sprinkle of diet culture rhetoric when she discusses recipes either.

From Salon • Aug. 7, 2024

Refreshingly frank and emotionally honest, it was the first time many fractured families, and single mothers, saw themselves on TV.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2023

Refreshingly, the drama refuses to gloss over the tedium of depression and anxiety, zoning in on the panic attacks, insomnia and self-doubt that are often part of these conditions.

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2022

Snub-nosed, Precious, and Refreshingly Normal, which is the line Davina’s been using two or three hundred times a day for half a decade now.

From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff