Example Sentences

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“We appealed suspensively, which means we have continued to pay him the corrected and reduced amount of his benefit,” she wrote in an email.

From Washington Times • Jun. 2, 2015

I begin at the passage describing the villa's cat:—           Does Cincirillo follow thee about,     Inverting one swart foot suspensively,     And wagging his dread jaw at every chirp     Of bird above him on the olive-branch?

From A Wanderer in Florence by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)

Necks were craned, and white faces twitched suspensively.

From A Chair on the Boulevard by Merrick, Leonard