Sentence examples for testily from inspiring English sources

Sir Christopher said so to the shareholders; Mr Esser defended himself testily in a German business magazine.

One academic close to the revolutionary guards says testily, "America keeps thinking we are about to sink, that we'll implode.

As Sir Richard testily pointed out, "Guilty Men" is a phrase borrowed from wartime denunciations of those who appeased Hitler in the 1930s.

But, upon arriving, we found the secretary talking testily on the phone with one unlikely McCain voter.

"When are you going to avoid or get around people sitting in their faeces for days in a dazed state?" Justice Sonia Sotomayor testily demanded of a lawyer representing California last November.

In putting together his new cabinet in late August, Mr Wahid quickly reverted to form, installing a couple of dubious ministers, then testily and irrationally defending them to his coalition partners.

As well as the timing and wording of the ballot, the two sides have disagreed on whether the voting age should be lowered for the referendum (Mr Salmond says that it should) and whether it should be overseen by the Electoral Commission, which Nationalists testily point out is answerable to the Westminster Parliament.

Mr Obama, Mr Goldberg disclosed, thinks that with "each new settlement announcement Netanyahu is moving his country down a path toward near-total isolation".An aide to the Israeli prime minister testily retorted that Mr Netanyahu would "continue to resist pressure from America and other countries" and would "make no compromise that will harm its citizens' security".