Example Sentences

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And, tormentingly, there are only a handful of anecdotes about his life.

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2011

He had come to find does, and if they weren�t there, he might only lope through the clearing or hover tormentingly at the margin of the poplars before simply fading away.

From Time Magazine Archive

At this time the shark darts tormentingly about the whale's head.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her hat was the breast and wing of a red bird tormentingly pierced by two hatpins.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Every day, the little gray-furred beasts would scurry tormentingly through the branches that hung outside the nursery windows, which threw all Penelope’s attempts to teach odd and even numbers into chaos.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood