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How to use inscrutably in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word inscrutably? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Darryl hummed inscrutably and looked back down at the tent peg he was trying to hammer into the ground.
But the other fascinating thing about the movie is that the South is portrayed as both inscrutably evil, and attractive.
He didn't say anything, and he was peering at me inscrutably through the darkness when I looked at him again, his eyes aglow in the porch light.
Only the tourist police, sitting inscrutably astride their camels and scanning the scene through binoculars, seem to act as a deterrent.
For security reasons, the cabins have no windows and are inscrutably hermetic from the outside.
You should give three-quarters to the person who claims all of it, and the remaining quarter to the person who claims half of it, the text instructs, somewhat inscrutably.
Noted illustrator Hugh Thomson drew a more fetching version in 1894 – younger, more dapper, with gorgeous hair and a well-turned leg – but all that seems inscrutably foppish.
An owl, its feathers precisely drawn, stares inscrutably from the wall.
They watched us go past impassively, the children were more demonstrative but the adults, either men in their familiar woolen hats or the women in wide skirts and black bowler hats, just watched us inscrutably.
Examples from Classical Literature
Squaring his shoulders, he crossed his legs and gazed inscrutably at his spats.
Black George continued to smile unpleasantly, the Chinaman to regard them inscrutably.
The powers, protecting America, inscrutably to contemporaries kept busy certain agencies that saved the union.
He gazed pensively at the logs crackling on the hearth and his features were as inscrutably blank as those of the Sphinx.
I insisted, but he stared at me inscrutably, and said that he had no record of the man.
But she herself, for a time, continued to wait, only looking up at him inscrutably.
Shopland smiled, inscrutably yet with the air of one vastly pleased.
Mr. Levine smiled inscrutably, while his wife shook her head at him.
So I put it before her, but she continued for a little so inscrutably embarrassed that I came again to her aid.
He looked at me, inscrutably and attentively, through his gold spectacles.
For, it inscrutably appeared to stand to reason, in the minds of the whole company, that I was an excrescence on the entertainment.
Raffles stared at me inscrutably for some moments, and for some more at the great white numbers over the grand-stand.
He rather looked upon it as one of those beautiful dispensations which are inscrutably brought about for the behoof and advantage of good men.
Clare glanced at her inscrutably, and began to score the other essays.
He loomed at the back of her thoughts, inscrutably dark and romantic.
Silently, inscrutably, the gambler dealt the ten cards, one by one.
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