Example Sentences

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“What is wrong with me, Henri?” she poutingly asks Lautrec.

From Time • Dec. 18, 2016

When jolly Mayor Roger Lapham gave her a gold medal, she poutingly demanded a kiss as well, received a peck on the forehead, both cheeks.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Well, Polly and I are as good riders as any one of you, and seeing it is our mine, we ought to have something to say about it," added Eleanor, poutingly.

From Polly and Eleanor by Barbour, Harold S.

She folded her arms."You needn't be in such a hurry," she said, poutingly.

From The Bread-winners A Social Study by Hay, John

That's just the way Mr. St. Clair damps my ardor," she says, poutingly; "I do so want to pose as Mary Stuart.

From A Romance of Toronto A Novel by Savigny, Annie Gregg