Example Sentences

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She was now to search more deeply into the needs of life, still crudely, but examiningly.

From Coquette by Swinnerton, Frank

Then deliberately laying aside his hat and showing a head thickly covered, with white hair, he stroked and clutched his beard while he looked examiningly at the young face before him.

From Daniel Deronda by Eliot, George

The girl looked without fear, but thoughtfully and examiningly, at the brilliant assembly.

From A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Dahn, Felix