Example Sentences

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He looks at me more appraisingly, but he’s smiling.

From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2019

“We’re about the same age, right?” a woman asks me, appraisingly, after a reading.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 7, 2014

She means this, with all her dear innocent teenaged heart. Roland looks at Ginger appraisingly, patronizingly.

From Time • Mar. 15, 2013

A fiftysomething woman with blond hair and workout clothes grabbed it appraisingly, shook her head with a slight scowl, and walked on.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2010

Riddle did not look remotely abashed; he was still staring coldly and appraisingly at Dumbledore.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling