How to Use droll in a Sentence

droll

1 of 2 adjective

• Noel Coward's droll play of a threesome among a husband and two wives, one in this life, one in the next.
  — Philly.com, 8 Oct. 2017
• But the many droll and stylish scenes make up for those deficiencies.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 24 June 2019
• Just ask Christopher Kimball, the droll showman of food.
  — Michael Russell, OregonLive.com, 16 Oct. 2017
• Its title implies fright but also winks at the show’s droll tone.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 21 June 2019
• There’s room for some droll musical humor along the way.
  — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• However, all are droll, deft and well cast, with Hormann as the standout of the show playing the father.
  — F. Kathleen Foley, latimes.com, 14 June 2019
• That droll demeanor is not the stuff of the Iowa State Fair soapbox, but few things about Bloomberg’s campaign are typical.
  — Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2020
• Among them was a reply from the famously droll DeGeneres.
  — Glenn Garvin, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2018
• Costumes make the misadventures of the droll co-workers all the funnier.
  — Lydia Price, PEOPLE.com, 24 Oct. 2017
• Space Jam was someone's first exposure to the droll actor.
  — Matt Patches, Esquire, 22 July 2015
• At the same time sober and droll, delicately seeking flaws.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 1 May 2023
• Bong is more frisky than angry with his idea, at least for most of the film, and a bit of droll comedy makes his harsh class-war take palatable.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 3 Oct. 2019
• Much of the movie is bitterly funny; some of it just amusingly droll.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 1 Sep. 2019
• Burgess seizes every droll line and runs with it, giving the production a valuable lift.
  — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• Nathan Stewart-Jarrett is dry, droll and very funny as a caustic gay nurse.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2018
• Ruthie is full of such droll expressions and her monologues feel closest to the Greek chorus of this novel.
  — Liz Matthews, Town & Country, 3 June 2016
• Enter Eve, played with taut, droll skepticism by Oh, who is equally adrift in her work.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2018
• So one of the biggest surprises about the Amazon three-parter is its breezy, eccentric, even droll tone.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2018
• Parker’s voice is earnest and droll, one that lends her novels a breathless specificity that allows you to get lost in the trappings of this world.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Dec. 2019
• These are movies for those who find the Knives Out franchise too sophisticated and droll, red meat for the Sandler faithful.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2023
• Beau Nolan's droll performance as Dorothy centers the show, which tracks the recent divorcee's quest for either a steady job or a husband.
  — Chicago Reader, 20 Sep. 2017
• The book has many droll things to say about architecture, and Seattle, and private-school parents, and what is permitted, for whom.
  — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 13 Aug. 2019
• Otherwise, what’s not to like about spending some time with a couple of bright and droll dining companions?
  — Walter Addiego, kansascity, 23 Aug. 2017
• But from inside the books, the syntactic icing is so clearly a protective measure, a droll band-aid.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 17 May 2018
• In keeping with Adam’s column, here’s a droll look at how Big Tech is preparing for the reckoning that is surely coming for it.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2019
• Gadsby’s droll, clever manner draws laughs with her screeds on the color blue and the way women figure into art history.
  — Mahita Gajanan, Time, 18 June 2018
• Of course, 19th-century attitudes might be dismissed out of hand for their droll quaintness.
  — The Editors, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2017
• And that pursuit could not be more charming, quirky, droll and absolutely lovable.
  — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Jan. 2018
• Dressed in a charcoal suit and white shirt, Musk calmly answered the questions and slipped in an occasional droll remark that drew snickers from jurors and the gallery.
  — NBC News, 4 Dec. 2019
• Red Herring is an evening of deft, droll, often-uproarious fun.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 29 Oct. 2017

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droll

2 of 2 noun

• Whishaw puts on a show for us viewers, too, in droll asides to the camera.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 3 June 2022
• The Emily of the title is played by Aubrey Plaza, a droll and off-kilter presence in ...
  — Ross Douthat, National Review, 25 Aug. 2022
• The mood was brightened by the production’s droll Autolycus, one of the Bard’s great con men and clowns.
  — Donna Rifkind, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2023
• But rather the droll sarcasm that can lighten the pressure in a tense dressing room and make a game feel like a game again.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• Trent Crimm — the reporter played by the delightfully droll James Lance — writes a book about Ted!
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 31 May 2023
• On and off the page, Davis is reserved, droll, precise, and principled.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2023
• The film never reclaims the droll touch at the start, which reveals that Ruthie uses the saw to cut a log lodged under the tires of the Uber that brought them there.
  — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2023
• Eno writes droll, sorrowful jokes that land late enough that your mind doesn’t have time to be amused or upset.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2021
• Bellefleur has a droll, distinct voice, and her one-liners zing off the page, striking both the heart and funny bone.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Dec. 2020
• There were lots of droll variations on the trolley problem.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2021
• Turns out the three remaining solutions were droit, dross and droll.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• Trillin’s droll manner has a lot to do with his gift for understatement.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• There are echoes of Dame Agatha, too, when the first of several murder victims in this droll romp is a latter-day Miss Marple.
  — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2021
• This is a droll and extremely well-acted tale of a family in crisis, and in progress.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 23 Nov. 2021
• She’s matched by John Light’s dashing Lord Azriel, droll and determined in equal measure.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 8 Dec. 2021
• Lorre gets in some droll laughs too, while Mason is madly majestic as Nemo.
  — Jack Moffitt, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2022
• The weather outside on Friday night’s opening was a close match for the sepia tones of Courtney O’Neill’s droll and unusual set.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 8 Feb. 2022
• Munro’s characters are drawn from the upper classes, and his prose is droll in the British way—wry and epigrammatic.
  — The New Yorker, 28 June 2021
• What's left feels like a sort of droll curiosity; a wisp of eat-the-rich fantasy and Gallic farce, lost in its own je ne sais quoi.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2020
• And there are flares of droll, dry humor in the screenplay copenned with Simon Stephenson (Luca, Paddington 2).
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• There’s a sense of play to the film’s creeping horror, and it’s accentuated by Chastain’s droll turn.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2021
• Chung spends more time with the youngsters and the old-timer than seems genuinely necessary, but these are among the film’s best scenes, at once droll, impudent and true-to-life.
  — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2020
• The French show has drawn a cult following on Netflix over the past few years for its droll, charming portrayal of Parisian film agents and the movie stars who plague and sustain them.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2022
• Two drawings of Mickey Mouse are more disturbing than droll.
  — Richard B. Woodward, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2021
• The late 1960s was a harsh, destabilizing time for the country, and Sorkin nearly turns it into a droll diorama.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2020
• Through 14 chapters, each with a droll drawing by Eirian Chapman, our astral guide takes us through what is known—and not known—about the volatile goings-on in space.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
• Franzen is droll, too, on the soundtrack accompanying this era.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2021
• But a frisky track with a rockabilly backbeat and droll, squiggly pedal-steel fills are her best chance at getting away with it.
  — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2018
• At Round House, thanks to the marvelous actor Kevin Mambo, the sequence is arresting and sneakily droll.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 19 June 2023
• With genealogical quests all the rage, Klam’s book serves as a droll guide for other ancestry seekers.
  — Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2021

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