Blandly Sentence Examples

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  • Count Ilya Rostov smiled blandly and nodded approval.

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  • Having listened to her mother's objections, Helene smiled blandly and ironically.

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  • He laughed blandly at her naive diplomacy but listened to what she had to say, and sometimes questioned her carefully about the Penza and Nizhegorod estates.

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  • But Kutuzov went on blandly smiling with the same expression, which seemed to say that he had a right to suppose so.

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