Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an inquiring manner; by way of inquiry. Also
enquiringly .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an inquiring manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
inquiring manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an inquiring manner
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Examples
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She echoed his term inquiringly, and he made a very large gesture.
Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905
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Evan looked back at the leering head with the long-pointed beard and repeated the word inquiringly: "One of the doctors?"
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There was no lack of luster in the black eyes that roved inquiringly from the Englishman's bantering grin to the others in the room.
Back to God's Country and Other Stories James Oliver Curwood 1903
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He called inquiringly: a greeting and a demand in one, it sounded.
Desert Dust J. Clinton Shepherd 1911
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Golaud mentions his brother's name inquiringly, and she replies that she thinks he dislikes her, although he speaks to her sometimes, we hear, very softly, the theme of _Awakening Desire_.
Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score Lawrence Gilman 1908
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She was pale and trembling, but she held up and looked inquiringly.
Chapter 40 2010
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I lowered the little rifle and looked at him inquiringly.
CHAPTER XLIII 2010
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Mrs. Hall looked inquiringly at them as they returned inside.
CHAPTER X 2010
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He looked at her inquiringly, and her eyes laughed lazily into his as she stretched her arms.
CHAPTER XI 2010
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The stranger looked at him curiously across their clasped hands, and glanced inquiringly to Saxon.
CHAPTER VII 2010
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