Sentence examples for droll way from inspiring English sources

"He's funny, in a dry, droll way, and he's smart and certainly interesting.

A game? Or a droll way of saying that, seen from intergalactic space, those two places are really quite close to each other?

He sang plain and square-cut, "Brandy's brandy, any way you mix it, a Texian's a Texian any way you fix it," and the listeners laughed at the droll way he rolled out "fix it," the words surely meaning castration.

Ben Hopkins's 37 Uses For a Dead Sheep is a delightfully droll way of telling the extraordinary 20th-century exodus of the Pamir Kirghiz, a mountain people driven by various political upheavals to a small village in eastern Turkey.

K-2SO is hulking and dark, more like Ted Hughes's Iron Man in miniature, but with a droll way of objecting to orders; his style in backtalk involves a nicely timed deferred punchline.

There is an ingenious scene in which Bond is one of thousands of tuxedoed types at the opera, eavesdropping on the secret long-distance pow-wow the villains are having through special earpieces: 007 finds a droll way of getting them to reveal themselves so he can take covert photographs on his mobile phone.

Sure, he has droll ways of illustrating these claims.

"He is the strong man of his party — full of wit, facts, dates — and the best stump speaker, with his droll ways and dry jokes, in the West," Douglas told a supporter.

Mr. Tovey, in his droll, avuncular way, was also making a more practical point: Since the order of the pieces in the concert was changed, the printed program was now largely fictitious as well.

Here's a Steven Wright joke, picture him saying it in a very droll monotone way: "It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it".

As she says in a droll, self-deprecating way that's rare in this genre of showing off, "I was searching... for a way to be one with God while a lot of other people clapped".