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Recent Examples of sourly
The game ended sourly for the Chargers, as the Rams, led by quarterback Stetson Bennett IV, drove 75 yards on 10 plays for the winning touchdown.
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Daniel Popper, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
At the police station in South Northburn, Chief Bob Perkins looked sourly at Brad Crabbit.
—Annie Proulx, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
Daniel Popper, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
At the police station in South Northburn, Chief Bob Perkins looked sourly at Brad Crabbit.
—Annie Proulx, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sourly
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Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the conservative nonprofit American Action Forum, has watched glumly as Republicans have drifted away from their small-government traditions.—
David M. Drucker,
Twin Cities,
19 Oct. 2025
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Instead, Republican staffers sullenly reported to messaging meetings to talk about immigration.—
Michael Scherer,
The Atlantic,
7 Jan. 2026
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After sternly addressing the company executives who put the city through a year-long court battle, the Leavenworth Planning Commission on Monday evening voted 5-1 to recommend granting CoreCivic’s zoning application to operate for at least three years.—
Matthew Kelly
February 3,
Kansas City Star,
3 Feb. 2026
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The lawsuit comes days after Austin voters sternly rejected a 20% property tax increase as the city struggles to overcome a budget deficit.—
Dante Motley,
Austin American Statesman,
6 Nov. 2025
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For their part, Democratic leaders spoke mournfully of limits, of energy shortages, of national decline, of a crisis of confidence itself.—
Rosa Lyster,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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Based on the Dylan Thomas prose poem of the same name, published in 1952, the film lovingly and mournfully depicts the boyhood Christmastime of an old Welshman, tenderly and a tad mischievously embodied by Elliott.—
Sheldon Pearce,
New Yorker,
21 Nov. 2025
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Tarun would tease her, and my mother would look sorrowfully toward Kavitha, as if the two of them now shared some womanly burden.—
Madhuri Vijay,
New Yorker,
16 Nov. 2025
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There’s ample gore and jumpy moments, but the true scariness here is of the forlorn kind; leads Joe Bird and Stacy Clausen play the mounting nightmare with ache and desperation, elevating the emotional tenor of a dolefully eerie movie.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Jan. 2026
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The video of Hodges crying out plaintively is the antithesis of how a cop wants to be seen.—
Jamie Thompson,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
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Mia plaintively asks Philip at one particularly vulnerable moment.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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One of the most affecting shots shows McCartney glancing forlornly at a seat beside him at the mixing desk.—
Jordan Runtagh,
PEOPLE,
27 Nov. 2025
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“Sourly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sourly. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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