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Example sentences for "benevolently"

Lexicographically close words:
benethe; beneuolence; benevolence; benevolences; benevolent; beniamin; benighted; benign; benignant; benignantly
  1. But when he looked benevolently at her through his spectacles and bowed with his accustomed awkwardness, she felt a sudden lightness of heart at the thought that he had not seen.

  2. Mr. Alington paused, as usual, before replying, and looked benevolently at Kit and Lady Haslemere in turn.

  3. He smiled benevolently into Billy's startled eyes, and as the subject seemed to interest her he settled himself more comfortably and proceeded with his views on life.

  4. He sat back in an easy chair with Wilhelmina at his side and the Campbells hovering benevolently in the distance, and to all attempts to draw him out he responded with a cryptic smile.

  5. It would be perhaps too much to say that if the European Powers had been benevolently neutral to the Balkan League it would have survived and set firm the foundations of a Balkan Federation.

  6. Show him," she benevolently suggested, "what you've been reading.

  7. Nanda love," he benevolently concluded, "stay where you are.

  8. Then as with the impulse to meet benevolently and more than halfway her companion's imperfect apprehension: "You can settle on her something that will make her a parti.

  9. And at length a face came out of the twilight: a freckled face, benevolently bent over him under a starched cap.

  10. All that is abhorrent to our moral sense, or dangerous to our quietude, or villanous in human nature, we benevolently disgorge upon Africa for her temporal and eternal welfare!

  11. A face languidly and benevolently querulous was bent on him, when he, so clever a man, resumed his very silly petition.

  12. It is held upon the broad pavement, which was benevolently intended, no doubt, for this purpose.

  13. I told him that the islands are so beautifully and benevolently built that every good bit has got another bit on the next island, or across a cove, or on the other side of a bay, put there on purpose for the finest view of the first bit.

  14. He schemed benevolently for his unborn young, and for the persons about him: hence he was in a position forbidding a step under pain of injury to his feelings.

  15. He was aware of it; and systematically looking at himself with her upturned orbs, he accepted her benevolently as a God grateful for worship, and used the divinity she imparted to paint and renovate her.

  16. And he had never shown for her any sentiment but that of a benevolently teasing kindliness.

  17. Through this, at the present moment, he was gazing benevolently at Mr. Renshaw, as the latter fussed about the office in the throes of departure.

  18. He looked on life benevolently and found it good.

  19. Occupying the center of the spacious flower-decked living-room he beamed benevolently on the company of young folks who had tarried at the Harlowes' to learn that very thing.

  20. Hippy Wingate beamed benevolently upon his victim, bland expectation written on his plump face.

  21. Puységur, amused some of his leisure hours, and benevolently done not a little good, by taking the trouble of mesmerising invalids, whom he has thus restored to health.

  22. They were seated together a minute later at the angle of the room obliquely opposite the corner in which Gloriani was still engaged with Jeanne de Vionnet, to whom at first and in silence their attention had been benevolently given.

  23. My darling Netta," exclaimed the Chanoiness from where she was seated crocheting benevolently futile garments by the fire; "you should not joke in that way.

  24. A very strange and unexpected thing happened to me as regards the co-operation of the benevolently disposed.

  25. She heard Brantome benevolently murmuring the platitude: "It is often in making others forget their sorrows that one diminishes one's own, and in doing good to others that one finds good for oneself.

  26. He was smiling as benevolently as if he could embrace the whole world.

  27. The captain coming on board soon after, looked very benevolently at Harry; but, as usual, pretended not to take the slightest notice of myself.

  28. I might have been mistaken; but certainly I thought that Matilda, the one who had handed me the milk, sometimes looked rather benevolently in the direction where I sat.


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