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  • adverb In a demanding way.

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  • adverb in a demanding manner

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Examples

  • I was looking at her, wondering what comfort to offer, when the group that awaited me in one lab called demandingly from the door.

    Minor Revisions 2009

  • I was looking at her, wondering what comfort to offer, when the group that awaited me in one lab called demandingly from the door.

    Minor Revisions 2009

  • "If they don't listen to the whistles, then I'll say a verbal kind of demandingly and they'll go, 'uh oh.'"

    unknown title 2009

  • Though her alter ego saxophonist Jim Tomlinson and fine guitarist John Parricelli are on hand, there's perhaps not so much in this music for the more demandingly jazz-dependent.

    This week's new live music Andrew Clements 2010

  • Women who are taught not to speak up too loudly or too forcefully or too adamantly or too demandingly are not going to shout “NO” at the top of their goddamn lungs just because some guy is getting uncomfortably close.

    Thor's Day yendi 2009

  • And, yet, it is the most difficult, and demandingly unexpected that not only takes you to your knees, but often is the source of redemption.

    Dr. Cara Barker: How to Reject Your Inner Judge and Reclaim Self-Love 2010

  • Then one night a stray cat meowed demandingly at her screen door.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Cats Jack Canfield 2008

  • Then one night a stray cat meowed demandingly at her screen door.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Cats Jack Canfield 2008

  • She held her hands out demandingly, before they dropped to her side.

    Wicked Pleasures Leigh, Lora 2008

  • And there again, glory, a sense of dignity, a sense of people responding to a call, a sense of something very fundamental being uncovered about humanity as such and a sense of how, in spite of Oakington, human beings are still capable of living alongside each other more deeply and demandingly than the world often imagines.

    Faith in the Future 2008

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