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
• Its title implies fright but also winks at the show’s droll tone.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 21 June 2019
• Minsky is insightful but not droll.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 21 Sep. 2025
• Galbraith is both insightful and droll.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 21 Sep. 2025
• 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
• 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
• Costumes make the misadventures of the droll co-workers all the funnier.
  — Lydia Price, PEOPLE.com, 24 Oct. 2017
• Enter Eve, played with taut, droll skepticism by Oh, who is equally adrift in her work.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2018
• And that pursuit could not be more charming, quirky, droll and absolutely lovable.
  — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Jan. 2018
• Then stay even longer for how cannily the album sustains its mix of droll delivery and pure heartbreak.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 26 Oct. 2025
• Red Herring is an evening of deft, droll, often-uproarious fun.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 29 Oct. 2017
• But Nora remains a beloved, droll addition to the series.
  — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Feb. 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Smart gave the character a delivery all her own—deadpan, droll, and fabulous.
  — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 29 May 2026
• The strutting, jumping mock-concert sequences are droll and engrossing.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• His fiction is also considerably more droll.
  — Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2025
• Of course, 19th-century attitudes might be dismissed out of hand for their droll quaintness.
  — The Editors, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2017
• There’s a sense of play to the film’s creeping horror, and it’s accentuated by Chastain’s droll turn.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
• Her droll yet touching quest for motherhood mirrors the messy compromises and silent struggles of human lives.
  — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2025
• The drollest dairy origin story belongs to Rhoda Rindge Adamson.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
• 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
• For several years, the droll poet has been quietly churning out robust yet unfussy folk-rock guitar songs that support the weight of his deep croon.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025