Example Sentences

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Half dead with fatigue, she ends the act conducting the others, with a waveringly insistent hammer for a baton, in a chorus of The Twelve Days of Christmas.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Who is it!” he demanded, leaning out from the bed so that the light fell waveringly on his face.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

He rowed out to sea waveringly, but with silent dignity.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

A lone voice, joined by others, among them, waveringly, the voice of John.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

"I—I won't contradict you, Hannah," he said waveringly.

From The Gambler A Novel by Thurston, Katherine Cecil