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desultory sentence examples

  • Desultory fashion, went on.
  • The book is not always dynamic or funny, and sometimes garcía márquez just narrates the rather desultory days he just lived.
  • After some time his output of talk became more desultory as he continued to fail to make progress.
  • Desultory conversations.
  • This is definitely a modernist product: fragmentary, somewhat desultory, aware of its belatedness.
  • Desultory way.
  • I'd been to frontier land in morecombe, it was fairly desultory but at the back was an optimistically named house of fun.
  • Desultory attempt to clean off the worst of the unspeakable something left over from the party.
  • Desultory fighting.
  • Desultory discussion in 1994, a committee of 14 mps nodded through the units of measurement regulations.

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