Example Sentences

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The company’s quest for lasting relevance includes finding properties that might fill the seats in the challengingly grand, $89 million, 750-seat Harman Hall.

From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2021

Our childhood was rich and remarkable, though its reality was challengingly remote as well as extremely dependent on the seasons and the bounty of the land and sea.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 28, 2020

In the other image, he stares challengingly at the camera.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2016

Fortunately, this graceful production captures more than enough of this challengingly frolicsome yet ultimately piercing play to win us over.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2016

He had been holding a pose above his cider of Gibraltar invulnerability; he continued to gaze challengingly around him until he began to realize that wherever he looked, calculating eyes looked back.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles