Example Sentences

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And I have absolutely no valid, no sound, excuse to make but that I am like that!—I mean I am an abandonedly bad writer of letters and acknowledger of kindnesses.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry

In the first days of their love she had been his slave; she had admired him abandonedly.

From O Pioneers! by Cather, Willa Sibert

"It don't look like we was ever going to get a hitch," said the "Spider," after we had abandonedly offered ourselves to several automobiles.

From Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit by Dorgan, Dick

I gazed admiringly at her—to see her sink suddenly into a chair and weep abandonedly!

From The Princess Elopes by MacGrath, Harold

If I hadn’t loved Dinky-Dunk, fondly, foolishly, abandonedly, there would have been no little Dinkie and Poppsy and Pee-Wee.

From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.