Example Sentences

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He was too physically used up even to think connectedly.

From The Shadow of the Past by Young, F.E. Mills

A whole long life was passing in review before him, not connectedly, or in due sequence of events, but in detached scenes and incidents.

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Lever, Charles James

His eyes then began to have a fixed, dim look, and he seemed unable to speak or think long connectedly.

From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle

“Well, I suppose that is so,” admitted Clare, and thereafter she tried to speak more connectedly about the trouble which had finally engrossed all her thought.

From Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross Doing Her Best For Uncle Sam by Emerson, Alice B.

It was Osmond; he was white as death, and so excited as to be unable to speak connectedly.

From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie