Example Sentences

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Even as Ms. Back writes searchingly and evocatively about her suffering, she finds that narrative prose cannot depict the “black pit of depression, a landscape marked by lacunae.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

One song, “Grandmother,” features Laraaji singing wildly and searchingly over the top of Lenker’s vocals.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2025

Stanley and M looked searchingly at each other.

From Seattle Times • May 6, 2023

If the form sometimes falters, the novel searchingly explores how life demands its own performance and its own peculiar participation.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2020

It still echoed sorrowfully, searchingly, but other voices accompanied it, voices of pleasure and sorrow, good and evil voices, laughing and lamenting voices, hundreds of voices, thousands of voices.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse