Example Sentences

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Quaintly, no one had anticipated eBay would be used to sell used cars — but there it was, in startling numbers.

From The Verge • Apr. 6, 2020

Quaintly, he would field letters with defensive suggestions, including some schemes “with 13 guys on them.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2015

Quaintly old-fashioned in style, plot and special effects, this familiar tale of female derangement and institutional abuse is too tame to scare and too shallow to engage.

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2011

Quaintly printed, and bound in some foreign style, plain and unassuming without, but very rich within, for there she found Warwick's Essays, and between each of these one of the poems from Moor's Diary.

From Moods by Alcott, Louisa May

Quaintly and sweetly and with wondrous clearness it began an old, old song I first heard long ago.

From The Singing Mouse Stories by Hough, Emerson