Example Sentences

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An exceptionally mild version of wontons in spicy sauce with dissolvingly mushy wrappers … which reminds me, I haven’t been to tiny, Spartan, delicious Szechuan Noodle Bowl in way too long.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 7, 2019

She was sure—oh, horribly, dissolvingly sure!—that in the thick darkness a face—a face that could not see her—was looking down on her.

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie

The final particles or monads of air or granite are not dissolvingly blended into continuity of unindividualized atmosphere or rock when united with their elemental masses, but are thrust unapproachably apart by molecular repulsion.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

The portentous season passed, all things continuing as they were, and the immense incubus rose and dissolvingly vanished.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville