Sentence examples for droll reply from inspiring English sources
"A wise bird does not foul its own nest," came the droll reply.
When asked if people call to him on the street, his droll reply was, " Only if I'm being threatened by oncoming traffic".
"Yes, perhaps it will, but what you don't understand is that this will be perfectly affordable to the average couple of 100 years in the future," was the droll reply from Danny263.
I tell him I find it odd that he hasn't explored one of the great beach-loving countries of the world more thoroughly and am met with a typically droll reply: "Australia for me is a long, long way.
When the possibility was raised to Ian Poulter, the defending Accenture champion, that his 7 42 a.m. first-off-the-tee time against Stewart Cink could result in his being the shortest-lived defending champion of the year, he had a typically droll reply.
When the plaintiff's lawyer asked the Broadway hoofer if he or anyone close to him had been involved in any lawsuits, his droll reply set off a communal hoot of laughter: "I was in 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.' " A New York jury pool did not have to be told that "Spider-Man" is one of the most accident-prone and litigated productions in Broadway history.
"Wandering?" the fluttery Madame Caron (the droll Marylouise Burke) replies.
To which Turgenev (the lanky, droll Guy Henry) replies, "Because they're in French.
I'm sure I told myself this was why I'd written to Tom — for, once he'd begun writing droll and generous letters in reply to mine, he'd become Tom to me.
Very droll, Keith Austin.
