explore
verb (used with object)
to traverse or range over (a region, area, etc.) for the purpose of discovery.
exploringly
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a word derived from
explore.
Example Sentences
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One of Dick's feet, moving exploringly, touched a stone.
From Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
"Mr. Linden," said Faith after her eye had gone exploringly to the window, the wind and the clouds,—"I wish you would give the boys only half a day to-day!"
From Say and Seal, Volume I by Susan Warner
She stepped exploringly through the open door, into the sort of sewing-class room.
From V. V.'s Eyes by Henry Sydnor Harrison
You plunge your hand exploringly into the drawer, and bring up a long roll wound thickly with twine of all kinds and colors.
From Autumn Leaves Original Pieces in Prose and Verse by Anne Wales Abbot
For a moment she stared exploringly round the unfamiliar, bright little room crowded so horribly, cruelly close with herself, her mistake, and the life-long friend loomed so suddenly and undesirably into a man.
From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
