airily

Example Sentences

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This led me to be very wary of people airily predicting that democracy was finished, and made me alive to the way that, paradoxically, such nightmares can actually damage democracy.

From Salon • May 7, 2025

Johnson talked of “our concerns with the governance of the state of California,” which he airily blamed for “complicity ... in the scope of disaster.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2025

“The stories are also connected by their style, which is airily suggestive,” our reviewer, Alex Preston, writes.

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2021

I spoke with her teacher about both of these issues, and she airily said things were now fine socially and was nitpicky about my daughter’s academics.

From Slate • Nov. 5, 2020

“Just the wind,” I said airily, holding a twig in the fire till it got red hot on the end, like a long cigar.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns