Example Sentences

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The broker looked vastly disappointed, but smiled consentingly.

From Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life by Beard, Harry

Pocock was normally and consentingly though not quite wittingly out of the question.

From The Ambassadors by James, Henry

"I come up," said Flor, consentingly, and quite as if he had got the better of the discussion.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 by Various

Clotilde gazed aside for a moment and then confronted her questioner consentingly.

From The Grandissimes by Cable, George Washington

Fleetwood said; and he nodded consentingly over her next remark 'Not while I live, till he must go to school!'

From The Amazing Marriage — Volume 3 by Meredith, George