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How to use playfully in a sentence

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You might stop at the beach to let warm waves spend themselves playfully against your bronzed body.
He nipped playfully at my ear, as he got the last of the blood off of my gleaning coat.
As she ran her hands over his chest, she made approving noises and tweaked one of his nipples playfully.
I playfully punched him back, and he put me in an arm lock and gave me a noogie.
They playfully re-enact events and change details to match personal needs and desires.
He started trying to make fun of me, but since he was drunk and I was pretty sober, it was easy to playfully zing him right back and shut him up.
The water lapped playfully closer and close to our toes and the cool sand embraced our bodies like a fresh sheet on a sticky summer night.
It's not all brooding insolence though, there are glorious, uplifting love songs that pluck playfully at your heartstrings.
The flies, despite their immobility, seem to dance playfully like marionettes on a stage.
There's more to it than Marc Bell, whose playfully obtuse strips and illustrations get most of the attention.
Clad in a Hawaiian shirt, Johnson moves around the room, high-fiving one supporter and playfully grabbing the lei of another.
This bug took him to Bosnia, where a local film crew playfully scooped up live mines and waved them around for fun.
Mitch looked at the two women, playfully taking a swizzle stick, and mock stabbing himself in the heart with it.
Many riddles were embedded in rhymes, playfully disguising answers in metaphors and analogies.
In idle moments, we have imagined ourselves tugging playfully at his beard, perching on his chunky thighs and goosing his ample behind.
Lee nudged my ribs with her elbow playfully, with a friendly familiarity that surprised me.
They playfully rode piggyback on their team-mates' shoulders, duelling each other with loaded bottles of champagne.
Her smile was coy, and she playfully tilted her head, an inquisitive glimmer in her eyes.
An effective illusionistic device, the lattice seems to emanate from the center of the canvas, playfully lending the work a sense of depth.
The house's spatial bounty playfully adjusts to the irregular topography of this Mexican city.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He prodded Mr. Redell playfully in the short ribs and the incident was closed.
Then he pulled himself up on his pillow, reaching thin hands out to the spotted dog which nipped playfully at him.
The Texan patted the neck of his cow pony, which reached round playfully and pretended to nip his leg.
Klale, the Humorous, kicks playfully, elongating in preparatory gymnastics.
Showers shook playfully upon us from the vines, while we revelled in fruitiness.
She became as rosy as the flowers she carried and tapped him playfully with them.
Then I playfully tried verbal instruction in domestic matters, as we walked about on a Saturday afternoon.
Rafe leaped on to ride and Tom playfully snapped his whiplash at him.
He ran up to her and butted her playfully with his curly head, like a little ram, but his voice was quite desperate.
It contained the large sum of money which he had succeeded in playfully extracting, for the time being, from the treasury.
She moved toward him a few steps, playfully, and then halted.
He rose, and coming over to his wife, playfully pinched her cheek.
I cannot describe the tenderness with which he spoke to her, half playfully yet all the more compassionately and mournfully.
Just for a moment or two they wrestled playfully, until the scent of Sheeta, the panther, brought them to their feet, alert and wary.
He tried to sniff noses with her, but she retreated playfully and coyly.
He whined pleadingly, and scurried playfully in and out of the underbrush.
Then she asked him playfully whether he had not had any love affairs at Heidelberg.
The boy had leaped from the sled and was mauling the rough coat playfully.
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