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- adverb So as to
quest ; withcuriosity , desire tosearch , etc.
Etymologies
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Examples
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She raised her hand to her lips, touching them questingly as though in search of the physical imprint of his.
A Time to Dream Jordan, Penny 1991
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She raised her hand to her lips, touching them questingly as though in search of the physical imprint of his.
A Time to Dream Jordan, Penny 1991
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Her eyes, which for centuries had looked questingly forth from the canvas, now drooped and rested upon the baby.
The Best British Short Stories of 1922 John Cournos 1915
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Her eyes, which for centuries had looked questingly forth from the canvas, now drooped and rested upon the baby.
The Best British Short Stories of 1922 Various 1915
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Perhaps not uncoincidentally this is their lowest budgeted album since 2001, and perhaps as such saw them abandon the over-orchestration and over thought out nature of the vast majority of their post-Creation work and remind themselves that at heart they were and are as groove-laden and questingly offbeat as they should be, with no desire to be taken that seriously.
Sweeping The Nation 2009
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What happens in normal embryonic development, according to Sperry’s interpretation, is that axons long ‘wires’, each one a narrow, tubular extension of a single nerve cell grow questingly out from the spinal cord, sniffing like a dog for belly skin.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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What happens in normal embryonic development, according to Sperry’s interpretation, is that axons long ‘wires’, each one a narrow, tubular extension of a single nerve cell grow questingly out from the spinal cord, sniffing like a dog for belly skin.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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