Placidly Sentence Examples

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  • Birthday parties can either be wildly successful or placidly humdrum.

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  • Colorful fish dart in and out, while sharks and stingrays float placidly by spectators.

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  • There was no feeling of nationality, but the people were prosperous, enjoyed profound peace and were placidly content with the existing order of things.

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  • She was a ghost in white among taller ghosts, and she followed them placidly, her eyes dark rubies in the night.

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  • Another film, "The Two Talking Cats" displays two cats lounging placidly atop a bed, nuzzled against one another.

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  • He had, William also reports, a gift of impromptu eloquence, and a faculty both for saying witty things pleasantly at other people's expense and for listening placidly to witticisms directed against himself; while he was generous to excess without needing to make exactions in order to support his generosity, and always respected the Church.

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