Example Sentences

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

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

From The Man from the Bitter Roots by Lockhart, Caroline

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

From Charles Dickens as a Reader by Kent, Charles Foster