Example Sentences

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You can find the professor-preacher-pundit Michael Eric Dyson fretfully watching gospel coming “out of the church, into the streets” in the New York Times in 1991, just before Franklin himself arrived at the party.

From Slate • Jun. 6, 2019

He’s also never quite sure of the effect of his words, which Dinklage artfully conveys by looking around fretfully after proposing Bran as the new king.

From The Verge • May 21, 2019

Hawke intercuts this discussion with his own dialogue with Bernstein, fretfully telling him that many artistic geniuses are also “extremely selfish, extremely horrible people,” citing Jackson Pollock and Marlon Brando.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 14, 2015

Anyone with a stake in resolving Ukraine’s political crisis — including the diplomats watching fretfully from the E.U. and U.S. — will likely have to reckon with the role of these groups.

From Time • Jan. 28, 2014

“I am not going to run away, papa,” said Kitty fretfully.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen