wonderingly

[wuhn-der-ing-lee, wuhn-dring-lee]

adverb

1. in a way that expresses wonder or awe.

2. in a way that expresses curiosity or puzzlement; questioningly.

Example Sentences

The donkey also wonderingly observes horses gamboling in a field, glimpsed through the narrow window of a transport van, and tropical fish in a tank in a store window.

From Washington Post

Its characters gaze wonderingly at the sky, but it covers overly familiar ground.

From Seattle Times

I meditated wonderingly on this incident; but gradually quitting it, as I found it for the present inexplicable, I turned to the consideration of my master’s manner to myself.

From Literature

“All this food is made of food,” says Waffles, wonderingly, as they enter Mrs. Obama’s supermarket.

From Los Angeles Times

And I wished I could have seen McDormand’s face as big as a house, looking wonderingly outward, finding possibility.

From Seattle Times