inquisitively
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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“They are hand-raised babies,” he said, as the chicks squawked and looked inquisitively at the visitors.
From Seattle Times • May 25, 2023
I uttered inquisitively, as we were going down on the elevator.
From Golf Digest • Apr. 28, 2020
In one image, there are technically three Alvisas; one peers over a shower ledge to regard another, who is staring inquisitively at her reflection in the mirror.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 17, 2019
In her fiction Robinson knits narratively; in her essays rhetorically, inquisitively, at times polemically, but rarely autobiographically.
From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2018
He trotted over to Percy and nuzzled his face, then turned his head inquisitively toward Piper and Jason.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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