Example Sentences

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Faces glanced towards them as they all filed avertedly through the room.

From Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 by Richardson, Dorothy Miller

Placing her finger upon her lip, Isabel softly opened the door, and showed the object of his inquiry avertedly seated, muffled, on a chair.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman