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Example sentences for "airily"

Lexicographically close words:
aired; airfield; airfields; airie; airiest; airiness; airing; airjeep; airless; airley
  1. Put these cows in the pen first," said Jack, snapping his fingers and waltzing airily in his saddle.

  2. All right," answered Dixie Lee, waving California airily aside; "Arizona is good enough for me!

  3. On the top of the mass was perched a little old man in a skull cap, a slippered foot in a scarlet sock airily waving at one side.

  4. Dorothy was enveloped from head to foot in a voluminous blue gingham apron, and a dust cap, airily poised upon her smooth brown hair, completed a most becoming costume.

  5. Grantley stood smoking airily and looking at him with a whimsical smile.

  6. Personally I don't see that there's anything to discuss," said Daniel Meggison, airily stepping into the conversation.

  7. With which he took his admiring mother airily under the chin and kissed her--not having mentioned every reason which made a separate residence desirable.

  8. He said it so quietly and airily that they all laughed.

  9. And the tree tops, far off and indistinct, seem to rise airily over hollows of blue shade.

  10. She'd made the stuff and deceived me by an unscrupulously worded advertisement, now, no longer interested, she asked airily if further effort were essential.

  11. The upper church stands airily in the garden of the town hospital, its fine tower all that is left of the original building.

  12. We have made a most interesting discovery," Miss Hugonin airily announced to the world at large.

  13. We chatter airily at congresses about education, but we never really formulate our wants and bully people into doing things.

  14. And told her briefly and airily how the thing had come to pass.

  15. She waved aside airily the hand he stretched toward her, and danced into the thick of the resumed quadrille.

  16. Captain Forsythe waved his hand airily as he stepped back and forth.

  17. He regarded the supple, slender figure, so airily poised.

  18. A light seemed suddenly to break on her companion, and he sprang airily to his saddle.

  19. And you might get me a tooth-brush," Edward Henry airily suggested.

  20. Doris was endeavouring to reply to this difficult question as airily as possible, when three more of Jeff's friends made their appearance, and were brought up by Jeff in a group for introduction, thereby relieving her of the obligation.

  21. She waved a hand to him airily as she disappeared.

  22. In the course of years he had airily invited hundreds of callers to crack an egg with him--the joke was one of his favourites--but nobody had ever ventured to accept the invitation.

  23. Instead of which----" and Charles waved a paint brush airily round his studio.

  24. The nomad children played, half-naked, at Cora before the tents, calling shrilly to each other through the light silence that floated airily away into the vast distances that breathed out the spirit of a pale eternity.

  25. Then he shot one last sly look at Domini and hurried on, airily swinging the green bag to and fro.

  26. And Senor Gonzales disposed of the unknown by blowing him airily from the tips of his fingers.

  27. It was when this thrilling combat was at the hottest that the steed Euclid, being exasperated by a large blue-bottle fly, arose airily to his hind legs, and carried the Union champion right on top of his enemy.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "airily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.