testily

Example Sentences

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The man answered a little testily, “I’m not.”

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2022

He testily responds with, "So? I don't need a phone and a watch!"

From Salon • Aug. 14, 2021

In a sign of the rising temperatures, Coach Gregg Popovich testily lectured a reporter Monday that no one should expect the road to the Tokyo Olympics to be a cakewalk.

From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2021

Marie-Laure Satta, at 37 one of the senior nurses, confronts them testily, with Reynier looking a little lost at her side.

From Washington Times • Nov. 17, 2020

But as Bram launched into his first point, de Wet interjected somewhat testily, “I thought I made my attitude clear. I accept that no decision or date was fixed upon for guerrilla warfare.”

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela