Example Sentences

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In 2014, another toddler - dubbed the "fence baby" - uninvitingly crept onto White House grounds.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2023

Christine walked nonchalantly and uninvitingly through the streets, quite unresponsive to the exhilaration of events.

From The Pretty Lady by Bennett, Arnold

He was a short, stout, bald-headed individual, wearing large spectacles, and he looked up rather uninvitingly as they entered.

From Dave Porter At Bear Camp or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake by Rogers, Walter S.

Steps sounded inside the house; the cat stopped writhing, and as the door opened, darted in noiselessly with tail erect past the woman who held the door uninvitingly half open.

From None Other Gods by Benson, Robert Hugh

"It would hardly do for any one to know where the money really came from—would it?" observed Jimmie Dale, and smiled uninvitingly again.

From The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)