Example Sentences

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As far as the eye can see, it’s the grab-on-the-go, fleeting-moments-of-pleasure food that, perhaps guiltily, people impulsively crave.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

I now caught that desert mining seems to be going on in Act III, and that, at the end, Gurnemanz and a female lover, who embraced guiltily at the opera’s start, are happily reunited.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2023

Sara’s younger brother Spencer returns to her life after she guiltily abandoned him, then 5, to a neglectful father.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2022

Tanya guiltily shoved a cash tip in Belinda’s direction, and pretended not to notice when she started weeping.

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2021

There was a ding from the bell above the shop door, to let him know someone had entered, and he looked up, guiltily, but there was no one there.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman