Example Sentences

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Shakespeare has been but scatteringly surveyed this season by the more earnest theatre followers.

From Time Magazine Archive

The plague was hot too by the corn-chandler's, where they sell forage to the carters, extreme hot in both Mills, along the river, and scatteringly in other places, except, mark you, at the smithy.

From Rewards and Fairies by Kipling, Rudyard

The rain-drops fell now but scatteringly, the last of the shower; the sun was breaking out, and the green world was all in a glitter of wet leaves.

From The Old Helmet, Volume I by Warner, Susan

Half an hour later the raindrops began to fall, at first scatteringly and then in a steady downpour.

From Three Young Ranchmen or, Daring Adventures in the Great West by Bonehill, Ralph

Once outside the jaws of the gully, the irregular cavalcade advanced scatteringly over the plain.

From The Boy Slaves by Reid, Mayne