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

I told my story light and airily, but it was heavy when it happened.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024

“I’m so tired of subjectivity/I must justify my presence by losing it.” she sang, airily, on “Female Vampire,” a 2016 single.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2022

When two newspapers reported he had accepted diamonds from self-proclaimed Central African Emperor Bokassa I, Giscard airily refused comment and stopped reading them.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2020

“Oh, didn’t anyone tell you?” the mystery girl asked airily.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix