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How to use dumbly in a sentence

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When I did no more than dumbly blink back he straightened and gave me a rather speculative look before finally breaking into a slow smirk.
Given the gory, carnage strewn 250-plus pages that precede that statement, the reader can only nod dumbly in agreement.
When he was done speaking, he kind of ushered me offstage with him, and, dumbly, I followed.
Her most obvious talent is an ability to stare dumbly at her interviewees in a manner which, she hopes, suggests interest.
I was standing there dumbly trying to absorb the enormity of what I had witnessed when it struck me that I had a family to worry about.
The employees stared dumbly after him, all of them dressed alike, members of the same club.
He nodded dumbly as he walked over to the medicine cabinet and took out the pill bottles stored there.
And I could only stare, my mouth hung open dumbly like a cow gumming its cud.
We all grinned dumbly at him, not one hundred percent sure what to say.
I just stood there staring dumbly like someone under a spell.
They have mostly sat dumbly, showing no sign of being capable of leading the country.
Merfyn knew what it all meant, and looked anxiously and dumbly from his father's face to mine.
It refuses, in fact, to do anything that will help its owners earn their living, just stands dumbly in its stall.
Doesn't it seem that she herself is dumbly stupefied by the strangeness of the form that she quickly made in the flesh of her lower abdomen when she grimly etched the shape of a triangle with clips on her belly?
Totally unwary, the great auks dumbly stood their ground and let Cartier's crew club them to death.
After all, I was trying to read a newspaper, or compose a hilarious tweet about EastEnders, or dumbly gaze out of the window like a cow obliviously trundling towards an abattoir.
The dumbly absurd situations are often characterized by supposedly awkward, but in fact physically highly demanding and even acrobatic, perfectly timed movements.
Examples from Classical Literature
Passing through the store he beheld Eli looking as dumbly as a lamppost at him.
The old man, leathery-faced, with a fine yellow moustache, looked at him dumbly.
Renouard, his hand grasping the back of a chair, stared down at him dumbly.
She had looked at him, dumbly, and he had rushed away, leaving her unforgiven.
She started for the door while the girls watched her dumbly, not knowing what to do or say.
But, as things were, he abstained from fraternising and continued to goggle dumbly.
Mr. teak, wondering as to the operations of Mr. Chase, agreed dumbly.
Two by two they marched dumbly behind the benjamins and the Bryces.
He stared wide-eyed at Mr. Perkins, questioning him dumbly, pathetically.
What flags are these that dumbly droop from the gaff o' the mainmast tall?
Lena still stared at him dumbly, vague with uncomprehending fear.
I went dumbly through that stage of the poet's suffering, in which he feels the delicious pang of utterance, and makes an image of his sorrows.
When they had passed the little town of Stourcastle, dumbly somnolent under its thick brown thatch, they reached higher ground.
The men were too astonished to reply, but gazed at her dumbly.
He looked at her dumbly with eyes full of pain and confusion.
With drooping shoulders and dull eyes Tarzan stood gazing dumbly at the insensate panel which hid from him what horrid secret he dared not even guess.
In general the house was quiet, dumbly quiet, without resonances of any sort, something like what one would imagine the interior of a convent would be.
Amy found Grace a well-mannered, merry, little person, and after staring dumbly at one another for a few minutes, they suddenly became very good friends.
The prince stood dumbly and blindly before her, and suddenly grew pale.
The convicts stopped when they reached the post and, while sacks were being brought, looked dumbly around as a wounded beast looks at an approaching huntsman.
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