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Example sentences for "blandly"

Lexicographically close words:
bland; blanda; blandest; blandishment; blandishments; blandness; blando; blank; blanka; blanke
  1. Mr. Wilkinson beamed blandly over the map counter, and still more blandly inquired whether Mr. Bennington Cole was in.

  2. So Smith, who was blandly ignorant of the fact that propriety as strictly measured in Boston would have been aghast at his candid manner of following his inclinations, met with no obstacles save from Miss Maitland herself.

  3. Now, seeing you, sir, I can blandly reply that I came via Springfield and that the train was a trifle late.

  4. The agents of the influential Conference companies, primed to resist interviews, greeted him affably, congratulated him on his new connection, and blandly denied all knowledge of any radical move in process.

  5. Ogniben can blandly and skilfully conduct a Chiappino to his valley of humiliation--"let him that standeth take heed lest he fall.

  6. When the row was over he got up and blandly announced that classes would take up immediately and that the Faculty would meet in extraordinary session that noon.

  7. We raised a storm of indignation, but they blandly told us to go hence.

  8. He would blandly kiss his white mice and twitter to his canary-birds amidst an assembly of English fox-hunters, and would only pity them as barbarians when they were all laughing their loudest at him.

  9. On the street-corners at the Square stood groups of storekeepers without their hats and coats, blandly gazing after the dray and officers.

  10. For only a brief moment did Arkwright hesitate; then blandly he suggested: "Suppose you try him, and see.

  11. Gladstone blandly observed that there was now no disobedience to deal with, and that it was not incumbent on him to do anything.

  12. The Speaker solemnly charged him with disobedience, to which Bradlaugh blandly responded that he had obeyed them, and had taken his seat in addition, having first taken the oath.

  13. Jo sat as if blandly unconscious of it all, with deportment like Maud's face, "icily regular, splendidly null.

  14. Saint Laurence on a gridiron," added Laurie, blandly finishing the sentence.

  15. They reached the door, and Fleda invited him, with terrible effort after her voice; the doctor having just blandly offered an opinion upon the decided polish of Mr. Olmney's manners!

  16. The rightful owner, if ignorant of the ways of Adam Moses Emanuel, would blandly smile at the absent man, thinking sighingly of the mighty labours which had brought him to such a pass, and quietly move off.

  17. Later on, Uncle Joe blandly asseverated that it pays to have the best, no matter what it costs.

  18. We're going out to the cliffs, then," Andy smiled blandly down upon the nodding, white feather in her hat.

  19. He left everything he possessed to his wife, but put no string to it, blandly implying that all danger would be past when she came into possession.

  20. The Doctor blandly acknowledges that Lord Kew had been driving Madame Pozzoprofondo, the famous contralto of the Italian Opera, in his phaeton, for two hours, in the face of all Brighton.

  21. In the winter, I hope we shall see you at Newcome," says the elder brother, blandly smiling.

  22. What were these new dicta, which Mr. Warrington delivered with a puff of tobacco-smoke: to which Mr. Honeyman blandly assented and Clive listened with pleasure?

  23. He blandly received their caresses; took their coaxing and cajolery as matters of course; and surveyed the beauties of his time as the Caliph the moonfaces of his harem.

  24. Mr. Wedron draws back from the table and smiles blandly upon poor Ray.

  25. Counsel for the defense smiled blandly at the special jury, the special jury smiled blandly at counsel for the defense.

  26. Look to it, ye governors of such institutions, and look to it, ye charitable and humane, who empty your purses into the blandly presented plate to buy shoes and stockings for the kangaroos.

  27. The manager smiled blandly and did not eject the man.

  28. He had never forgotten a morning on which he had overslept himself, and the mortification he had felt at the Doctor's blandly polite but cutting reception of his apologies.

  29. However, when he came up blandly after the performance she let him see her opinion of it.

  30. The last thing I remember about the visit was the voice of the successor to the throne of Holy Tonga asking me blandly in perfect English: "Will you permit me to show you the way to the consul's house?

  31. I was about to make up my mind to go back to the Lubeck and sulk, when a native issued from the grove at my left and blandly gazed upon me as he passed.

  32. His Majesty blandly but with dignity turned to his aide-de-camp and raised his eyebrows inquiringly.

  33. I told him it was a question not of weeks but of months, that if we were not back by the end of August Blandly was to send to find us, but neither sooner nor later.

  34. The Voyage ALL that night we were in a great bustle getting things stowed in their place, and boatfuls of the squire's friends, Mr. Blandly and the like, coming off to wish him a good voyage and a safe return.

  35. His companion pressed the tips of his fingers delicately together, as though blandly deprecating this observation.

  36. And he chuckled, stroking his stubbly gray beard the while with a blandly suggestive, yet malign look directed at Sah-luma, who met it with a slight, cold smile of faintly amused contempt.

  37. Carson blandly declined to give a room rent-free, or let one to the government on credit.

  38. The visitor found his bell answered by a blandly smiling Wing Sam, who cheerfully remarked: "Hullo!

  39. Expenses" went to the underlings, and after some mysterious subterranean manipulation, of which the big fellows remained blandly unconscious, results came back.

  40. But, out of the corner of one eye, he observed that Mr. Jobling was wearing a blandly contented smile.

  41. He almost blushed, indeed, under the duchess's blandly discerning smile.


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