dourly in a sentence

Examples

1. Prior to this Nagamootoo had Smith who had batted dourly edging into the hands of Azeemul Haniff at slip.
2. "We certainly live in interesting times, " the cool-mannered, mustachioed Dodds remarks dourly.
3. "This, " he said dourly, " is one of those no-compromise issues ."
4. Back then some economists dourly predicted huge migrations, particularly of unskilled laborers moving from southern countries to the more prosperous north.
5. When it ends, as dourly and almost as ambiguously as it began, we can't wait to get away.
6. I think, " he concluded dourly, " that the public is really just interested in trade secrets ."
7. They begin talking about women, and the unwed squire dourly declares that there cannot be more than nine good women in the world.
8. Brooks wrote somewhat dourly, " its temporary success founded chiefly on the gullibility of the stock buying public and its professional advisers ."
9. When Kline, a Juilliard-trained organist, was elected abbot in 1991, he found on arrival an aging monastery dourly planning for decline.
10. Having grown up under Fascism and having lost a brother in the partisan war of 1943-45, Piero Trotti is cynical yet dourly optimistic.