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Sentence Examples
She passed in front of a mirror and frowned doubtfully at the outfit she was wearing.
She shook her head doubtfully, but smiled at me as if to say that she wouldn't be altogether unhappy if I was wrong.
I enjoyed the reunion with my sister and my mother, who smiled doubtfully when I promised I would resume my daily visit.
Mullen presented 238 world-wide records of acarine parasites of mosquitoes but more than half of the observations concerned unidentified or doubtfully identified mites.
Our best models are either doubtfully applicable to our unique economic situation or are weakly validated empirically.
A mind suspended doubtfully between different motives and plans changes its direction according to the strength of the competing objectives.
Grandpa looks doubtfully from the window to Elmo, but Elmo drags him to the door, before he can protest.
They agreed, some rather doubtfully, that an EU-Balkan summit which France, as the EU's current president, hopes to hold in November in Croatia, would be useful.
Grandpa looks at it, doubtfully shaking his head.
Examples from Classical Literature
Diana looked doubtfully at the two inches of brown, porky substance on her ivy-leaf plate, and sighed.
Jethro looked at her doubtfully, and then, as she smiled at him, he smiled also.
It was a hesitating face, which seemed to blink doubtfully in the daylight.
Simba stared at me doubtfully, then began to whisper into the ear of the lamed diviner.
I borrow a peacoat of one of the crew, and in that practical disguise am doubtfully permitted to pass into one of the boats.
Kroeber classes Saclan as doubtfully Costanoan, but shows the group as Costanoan on his large colored tribal map.
He approached the lady on the bench a little doubtfully, but unembarrassed.
Now, every man who was a handful or two short of his crop began to look at us doubtfully.
But Mme Lerat, his own sister, shook her head doubtfully, averring that she was not so sure of his ignorance.
The writer grunted doubtfully, but took a stamp out of his desk, sealed the letter, handed it over to Kim, and departed.
It is a waltz, I think,' Miss Larkins doubtfully observes, when I present myself.
He regarded his guest doubtfully, with a shadow of disfavor.
For an instant, he hesitated while the others regarded him doubtfully.
The guard watched us doubtfully, and angrily, but he let us pass.
I am a preposterous excrescence on the social cosmos,' said Clarence, eyeing him doubtfully.
He paused, glancing doubtfully at his most unconciliatory companion.
The verger scratched his head, and looked doubtfully at Henry Dunbar.
Miss Wilson looked doubtfully at him, but, being in haste, went indoors without further comment.
Trefusis, evidently concerned, looking doubtfully at Erskine, and pondered for a moment.
Vine vigorous, doubtfully hardy, variable in productiveness.
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Mr. Trevor glanced, still a little doubtfully, at roughie in my arms.
And then he saw Spear standing apart regarding him doubtfully.
As he shut up his pocketbook, he glanced toward Magdalen doubtfully.
With this interjection, the knife descended on the puff, and it was in two, but the result was not satisfactory to Tom, for he still eyed the halves doubtfully.
But downstairs is the charitable Guster, holding by the handrail of the kitchen stairs and warding off a fit, as yet doubtfully, the same having been induced by Mrs.
