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Example sentences for "admiringly"

Lexicographically close words:
admired; admirer; admirers; admires; admiring; admissibility; admissible; admission; admissions; admit
  1. Philip Sidney was eminently handsome, and as his dark eye rested admiringly upon her, who will wonder that Clara became more than usually animated!

  2. She would be more like Grace Atherton, whom she watched admiringly as she went down the walk to the handsome carriage waiting for her, with driver and footman in tall hats and long coats on the box.

  3. Dick Little leaned back in his easy chair and gazed admiringly at Bindle, as he pulled with obvious enjoyment at his cigar.

  4. And very nice too," remarked Bindle, as he gazed admiringly at the photograph of an extremely pretty brunette with expressive eyes and a tilted chin.

  5. How affectionately and admiringly Mrs. Tascher always speaks of Ruth!

  6. You certainly have a lovely place, Mr. Bruce," she said, looking admiringly round as they mounted the front steps of his residence.

  7. And the little lady glanced rather admiringly at the small snowy fingers, which handled so gracefully the heavy knife and fork of silver.

  8. She was looking uncommonly well this evening; and as she saw how often and how admiringly his eyes rested upon her, hope whispered that the prize was nearly won.

  9. And she thought admiringly that her man was really a very wonderful man.

  10. XI Full particulars of the disposition of Mr. Barradine's fortune had now been published, and the world was admiringly talking about it.

  11. She's very proud of it,' said Frances, gazing admiringly at the pretty writing.

  12. But still you may find opportunities of speaking warmly and admiringly of the Harper girls, whenever your school happens to be mentioned.

  13. Colonel Everard marched proudly along with the military bearing that always distinguished him, now and then glancing admiringly at his wife, who, indeed, looked her very best.

  14. And he looked admiringly at the ripples playing silkily under the bronze satin of his foreman's arms.

  15. He assented gravely, his eyes dwelling admiringly upon her rare beauty.

  16. Red looking admiringly at her skillful handling of the rangy roan gelding, the kindling eyes and firmly compressed lips, decided that she would "make good.

  17. Monte-Cristo, gazing tenderly and admiringly at her.

  18. But Modigisel had also discovered the charm which such an expression bestowed upon the innocent, childlike features; his gaze rested admiringly upon Eugenia.

  19. She also saw Gavinia looking admiringly at her man, and in that doleful moment she thought she understood all.

  20. He was the guest of the evening, but they were talking admiringly of another man, and so he sulked.

  21. Glove and all," said wicked Gavinia, and she continued to feast her eyes so admiringly on her deceived husband that he passed quickly from the gratified to the dictatorial.

  22. Amanda tried on Anne's blue cape and hat, looked admiringly at Mrs. Stoddard's shining gold piece and brown shawl, and then Anne handed her the package of barley sugar.

  23. Jimmie Starkweather," he said, looking admiringly at the brush-covered shelter, and then at the brisk fire.

  24. Upon the terrace of Sans-Souci stood the king, and looked admiringly upon the lovely panorama spread out at his feet.

  25. Yankee gazed admiringly at the perplexed and hopeless Peter.

  26. It was impossible not to sympathize admiringly with some of my belated asters and golden-rods.

  27. Furthermore, there was formerly a huge (as I remember it) and beautifully proportioned hemlock-tree, at which I used to gaze admiringly in the first years of my wandering hither.

  28. She does more sleeping than anything else so far in her life,” laughed Max, looking down admiringly into the sweet, fair baby face resting so quietly on the soft pillow.

  29. Several of the cousins gathered about to look at the little one, and spoke admiringly of her appearance.

  30. There’s nobody here who will contradict you in that,” said Violet, gazing admiringly upon the sweet baby face.

  31. This is comfort, having you to myself again," he was saying, as he watched admiringly the delicate fingers busied with a crochet needle, forming bright meshes of scarlet zephyr.

  32. Ploughmen with their buffaloes halted in the muddy fields to gaze admiringly upon me; women ran scared from the path when my pony let out at a casual passer-by who tickled him with a thin bamboo.

  33. It was too great, too sublime, too irresistible--she must bend the knee admiringly before nature, however veiled her eyes were.

  34. As he had gazed admiringly at the small copy of it when a child, the round yellow sunflower in his garden, so he still delighted in it.

  35. Elsewhere he speaks admiringly of Mrs. Cosway, and describes her reception as a Diet at which representatives of all the princes of Europe assemble.

  36. They sit puffing away at their cigars, watching the smoke wreathing up into the summer sky, and Manners coaxes his whiskers and looks admiringly at his friend.

  37. As she went downstairs, she passed Monsieur Stein without the slightest mark of recognition, and he, too, looked admiringly after her, as if he had never seen her before.

  38. He had already sneeringly replied to the officers who had spoken admiringly of Ray's daring, by saying that Ray was, doubtless, trying to make a record to block matters that were working against him here.

  39. The officials touched their hats to Blake and his veiled companion, and looked admiringly at her tall, graceful form.

  40. The door stood invitingly open; the attendant was lolling thereat in his shirt-sleeves admiringly scanning the approaching group.

  41. She did not look like a country girl now, and Jack's eyes followed her admiringly as she moved around the room, with a faint flush on her cheeks and a very little shyness perceptible in her manner.

  42. How handsome he is," she said to herself, as she gazed admiringly upon the sleeping boy, "and how white and slim his hands are.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "admiringly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.