Sentence examples for was droll from inspiring English sources
adjective
Oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish
This was droll enough, I suppose, as far as it went.
He was droll ("America, I come in peace"), playfully evasive about changing the team's name and confident of a championship in five years "maximum".
Despite the disturbing subject matter (which included flashbacks to Dexter's primal traumas and scenes of his victims Saran-wrapped into submission), the show's tone was droll.
The script wasn't vintage noir – there was a martial arts scene – and Garner was not exactly Chandler's Philip Marlowe, but he was droll and melancholy.
The narration was droll and the images were ironic: A bereaved mother in New Guinea nurses a suckling pig, immediately followed by the wholesale slaughter of pigs for an orgy of feasting in the same region.
Some have been droll, others severe.
"I'm trying to be droll" he says.
Both are droll penny-pinching wenches, played with maximum minimalism.
Any number of passages are droll or well-observed.
