Sentence examples for droll on from inspiring English sources
"The governor tracked me down and said everyone thought this was a great idea; they just didn't ask me," he says, droll on a dire topic.
Franz Ferdinand are choppy and Iggy Pop-like on "Saint Dude" and "Leave Your Razors at the Door", Cocker is louche and droll on "Why Do You Make Me Care" and The Staves are rousing and hymnal on "Now That Your Dollar Bills Have Spouted Wings".
He is droll on the subject of egg freezing and casts himself as a 20-year-old woman: "So, I am a young woman, I collect my eggs – I haven't the foggiest idea yet whether I want children, I have not yet met the man with whom I would like to have children, I do not know yet whether I want to be a single mother, I have not made up my mind yet but I have it in the bank.
Passengers also get their own sidewall to droll on as they fall asleep.
If you can go a day in Toronto without listening to someone droll on about gentrification or the housing crisis, then you probably have a 905 area code.
True to form, Nate provides a droll take on said smooch, calling it "soft and warm, like the inside of a bagel".
But those who care less about such stuff than about being entertained will find plenty to like in this ghoulish comedy, a droll take on one of the most notorious mass-murder cases of the 19th century.
As slow and quiet as the film may be much of the time, it has several broader strokes — a bitterly funny sight gag by Mr. Bastounes, a subtly menacing sexual come-on to Ms. Macdonald, a droll take on an office Christmas party — all invented by Mr. Keaton, none involving his own character.
A pretty good comedian with a droll style on a marginal cable show on a network that few folks had ever heard of.
Along with the sex, of course, there is droll reflection on social conditions as they evolve in roadside vignettes on the journey.
I'd been there many times before and thus was familiar with the droll monstrosity on a giant poster that an engineer outfit had stuck up on a stanchion — a creation executed by some marine who had been a cartoonist in civilian life.
