peering
adjective
looking narrowly or searchingly, as in the effort to discern clearly.
peeringly
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a word derived from
peering.
Example Sentences
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The youngster and the red-faced girl turn aside up the bushy hill, I peeringly view them from the top.
From Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Her head leaned itself peeringly from stooped shoulders in such a way that its slim neck took the sort of curve we see in a frightened deer's.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
"Ah," said the old woman, and looked at him peeringly, "then you are for Mr. Roger?"
From By What Authority? by Robert Hugh Benson
The Burgomeister, a pallid, pouch-mouthed man, tremulous, and brick-dusty, like everything else in the village of Erdberg, came forward and peeringly examined the men.
From Red Axe by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Rowland climbed into many awkward places, and skirted, intently and peeringly, many an ugly chasm and steep-dropping ledge.
From Roderick Hudson by Henry James
