Example Sentences

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Competing with Don for Megan’s love, Sally argues that she was friends with her first, and scowlingly demanding that Megan not betray her secrets to Don.

From Salon • May 21, 2012

Colonel General Terenty Shtykov, the Soviet negotiator, had scowlingly refused even to discuss the issue of removal of machinery from Korea.

From Time Magazine Archive

Radnor subsided and listened scowlingly while the detective outlined his theory in a perfectly non-personal way, and ended by producing the letter.

From The Four Pools Mystery by Webster, Jean

And right under the heavy ledge where he and Paul had been sheltered, prior to 226 Murky's attack, stood Murky himself, mud-slimed, gaunt, fierce, and scowlingly savage.

From The Auto Boys' Mystery by Braden, James A. (James Andrew)

He sat, glowering, head partly averted, scowlingly aware of their going, aware of their human interest in one another but not in him, aware at last that he counted for nothing whatever among them.

From The Danger Mark by Wenzell, A. B.