insensibly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Were the United States to do so, Adams predicted, its defining trait — its very essence — "would insensibly change from liberty to force."
From Salon • Oct. 25, 2020
You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.
From Time • Oct. 26, 2015
A middle-aged nanny tried to get the attention of an otherwise-engaged macaque by ululating at it repeatedly, while the toddler in her charge, for whose amusement this was being done, peered insensibly at some bushes.
From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2014
I'm standing insensibly in the line for the films.
From The Guardian • May 24, 2013
Some of them were Union boys, looking at him insensibly as he went by.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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