Example Sentences

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Her attention is focused beadily outwards: “And where did you grow up?” she parries, in answer to a question about her early life.

From The Guardian • Mar. 7, 2019

Yet beneath the piffle, Huffington’s beadily commercial eye has surely spotted something.

From The Guardian • May 13, 2016

They watched beadily as the slim, smiling youth received the first, custard-pie impact of an American welcome.

From Time Magazine Archive

But from behind this smiling front, it watched the populace beadily; the Internal Revenue Bureau already has 45,000 people at work, and this year added 1,950 more gumshoe accountants.

From Time Magazine Archive

In one skeleton’s pelvic area mountain bluebirds had built a nest, and in it the female bird, surrounded by peeping young, stared beadily at the startled boy.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols