sagely
IPA: sˈeɪdʒɫi
adverb
- In the manner of a sage, with wisdom, wisely.
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Examples of "sagely" in Sentences
- "I can always buy a ticket," she proffered, sagely.
- Joe Sixpack nods sagely again … theAmericanist says:
- A nation nods sagely; it's bamboozled us for years, too.
- The old man nodded sagely when he heard the good word at Mass a week ago.
- Here I applied the sagely old nurse smile, and I looked right back into those watery green eyes.
- And for the record, I appreciate you using the term "sagely" in reference to me even if it was in jest!
- Chris, as for President Obama lying, the actions he promised are indeed, as you sagely suggest, still in progress and therefore don't qualify as lies.
- "For whether they be large or small, a dozen eggs is a dozen eggs," he observed sagely to himself; and a dozen small ones he found to weigh but a pound and a quarter.
- Remember that the American carmaker responded to the threat of smaller, cheaper, better, more economical foreign cars in the 1970s by taking a long, hard look at its fleet of behemoths, nodding sagely, and then adding spiffier "landau roofs."
- [I] n mooring this familiar character to the unique history of early-20th-century Hawaii, Brennert portrays the Aloha State's history as complicated and dynamic -- not simply a melting pot, but a Hawaiian-style "mixed plate" in which, as Jin sagely notes, "many different tastes share the plate, but none of them loses its individual flavor, and together they make up a uniquely 'local' cuisine."
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