Example Sentences

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Poetically and almost prophetically, the post said, “Malibu is on fire and the animals have been driven down from the hills to the shore.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2025

Poetically, the Portland internal review was published at DHS on that same very day.

From Slate • Oct. 13, 2021

Poetically minded viewers may recall William Blake’s “dark Satanic mills” when contemplating the largest painting in the Trevor Young show at Addison/Ripley Fine Art.

From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2020

Poetically, he called a penalty on himself after a round at The Greenbrier in July.

From The Guardian • Dec. 25, 2018

This freedom of action on the part of Rosamond shows what it is to be a postulant in a convent of a Poetically Licensed Order.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 18, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir