How to Use droll in a Sentence

droll

adjective

• 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
• His fiction is also considerably more droll.
  — Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2025