Example Sentences

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Refreshingly, “Kokuho” is that rare film to be un-awed by talent alone.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

Refreshingly honest from a leader who isn't fully in control of her own destiny?

From BBC • Oct. 4, 2025

Refreshingly, it began the opinion with facts about how climate change is ravaging Montana and threatens everybody’s way of life.

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2024

Refreshingly, there is not a sprinkle of diet culture rhetoric when she discusses recipes either.

From Salon • Aug. 7, 2024

Snub-nosed, Precious, and Refreshingly Normal, which is the line Davina’s been using two or three hundred times a day for half a decade now.

From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff