18 Words to use with wry

With a wry face Trendon tossed up the package.

The long blades whirled and flashed and rang upon the stillness; and ever, as they fought, the stranger smiled his wry smile, mocking and gibing at him, whereat Beltane's mouth grew the grimmer and his blows the heavier, yet wherever he struck, there already was the stranger's blade to meet him, whereat the stranger laughed fierce

Then spake the man Eric, of the wry neck.

Would Murdo make the wry mouth? Is Ailie cross-eyed?

" This letter I addressed and stamped, and then, with a wry grimace which I palmed off on myself (but not on Adolphus) as a cheerful smile, I went out and dropped it into the post-box; after which I further deluded myself by murmuring Nunc dimittis and assuring myself that the incident was now absolutely closed.

" "There now, don't you be frettin'; but just sip this, and remember you're not to judge a friend by a wry word.

A wry look might at any time call down upon a luckless child a hundred lashes.

"No, I didn't ask him," she admitted, and then with a little wry twist of her lips, "But I rather hoped he might feel like coming."

" "I suppose it does matter more to them?" The sunburnt face, puckered with a wry wistfulness, was only comic in its incongruous coat of grease.

She sometimes wondered with wry humour if Miss Whalley could have enlightened her as to her husband's whereabouts; but that lady's attitude towards her was invariably expressive of such icy disapproval that she never ventured to put the wonder into words.

Put in the rough, that was the plan wasn't it, my dear parent?" "Practically," admitted the dear parent with a wry grin.

"Your Adonises never make orators!" said a crack speaker with a wry nose.

Make a wry path through your fields, and still you'll walk in it!

I had once a wry aunt, which may make me dislike the phrase.

It filled him with a momentary pleasure to see a wry stick of purple black flash out into the form of a snake, and vanish amidst the brown.

What starres so ere you are assur'd to grace The firmament (for, loe, the twinkling fires Together throng and that cleare milky space, Of stormes and Phiades and thunder void, Prepares your roome) do not with wry aspect Looke on your Nero, who in blood shall mourne Your lucklesse fate, and many a breathing soule Send after you to waite upon their Queene.

put in Raoul with a wry laugh.

You float in shallow water!"[A] the wry lips seemed to be saying to him.

18 Words to use with  wry