wry - use in sentences

Modifies a noun

  • smile: LG UK can be forgiven for enjoying a wry smile at the gray buyers ' expense.
  • grin: Dave on drums with wry grin: powerful with perfect attitude.
  • amusement: Not, of course, a happy smile, nor one of wry amusement.
  • humor: This was typical of the play's wry black humor.
  • humor: Irish wedding toasts are well known for their wit and wry humor, their sense of history and tradition.
  • wit: He is an erudite writer, with the wry wit of the man of the world rather than the university wit more common nowadays.

Modifying Another Word

  • sometimes: Both, as we have come to expect from Luke, involved some excellent guitar work with gentle and sometimes wry lyrics.
  • much: There are also some extraordinarily tense, suggestive set-pieces, especially in the bleak final half-hour, and much wry comedy.
  • particularly: His observations on the clientele of gyms are particularly wry.
  • often: His uniqueness as a performer stems from his ability to captivate an audience through a stunning delivery of his perceptive and often wry lyrics.
  • very: For an entertaining evening with some very wry touches this show really is hard to beat.
  • alternately: There wasn't really any plot to this episode, more a sequence of alternately wry and emotionally-charged conversations.

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