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Example sentences for "determinedly"

Lexicographically close words:
determinations; determinative; determinatives; determine; determined; determiner; determiners; determines; determineth; determining
  1. Words seemed superfluous, but yet they were more or less necessary, so Sam got out at Hollis Creek Inn with her, and led the way determinedly and directly into the stuffy little parlor just off the main assembly room.

  2. He wasted no time over this thought, however, but strode very swiftly and determinedly up to Miss Josephine.

  3. He would march very determinedly along the road he thought best; but then it was wonderfully easy to convince him which was the best road.

  4. I determinedly usurped a mother's privilege in regard to the situation, and glancing back over my barren life I would that I had been mother of just such a son.

  5. On ascending to my room I did not, as expected, find Dawn sobbing, but she had her face so determinedly turned away that I refrained from remark.

  6. They look for satisfaction so determinedly in an anti-spiritual direction, that they are positively enraged at One who certainly has power, but who steadfastly uses it for spiritual purposes.

  7. Those who most determinedly proceeded against Jesus did so on the very ground that His miracles were becoming too numerous and too patent.

  8. It is at the stage when the lion has been determinedly "bayed" that the sportsman from London is usually introduced upon the scene.

  9. When, finally, with much reluctance we left this attractive place and pushed off determinedly into the stream, we lost no time in making Nimule.

  10. The sudden and vigorous jerk of the young man, which had been so determinedly guarded against, had yet produced its effect.

  11. She felt his arm jerk against her hold, resisting it, but she clung determinedly to his wrist with her small strong fingers.

  12. I think we shall have to hurry if we are to catch our train," she said, keeping determinedly to the practical side of affairs.

  13. Dickens had pledged himself to them; and the fact that others' interests were engaged rather than his own supplied him with an overpowering motive for being determinedly set on going through with them.

  14. Frank determinedly "We've had enough of your tricks.

  15. Frank, though more serious, did not despise a good time by any means, but he went at matters more determinedly than did his brother.

  16. Keith, starting determinedly in the direction of the engine.

  17. Gringo, all four feet planted, was determinedly straining back against his tether.

  18. And even where things are not so bad as in the case of which we have been thinking, it remains the social curse of this age, that people with a few hundreds a year determinedly act in various respects as if they had as many thousands.

  19. The next morning she was coolly polite and Dillon determinedly genial.

  20. Determinedly Great Taylor put some things to soak and, closing down the top of the stationary washtubs, went to the window.

  21. I got to get back," she told herself, and heading her cart determinedly for an opening succeeded in crossing to the opposite side of the congested avenue.

  22. Enthusiastically he pointed out here a bird and there a flower; carefully he helped her over every stick and stone; determinedly he set himself to making her forget her dreary daily tasks.

  23. Then determinedly he sat down and picked up one of his letters.

  24. Determinedly he set himself to forget the affairs of the Denbys.

  25. And she still wore a determinedly cheerful face when her husband came home to dinner that night.

  26. He blamed himself for not struggling more determinedly against the charm she had exerted on him; but it was too late to regret this now.

  27. Muriel took a book from a shelf, but although she determinedly tried to fix her attention on it, she could make no sense of what she read.

  28. Even if I sat down determinedly to my book, and managed to concentrate my whole attention upon what I was reading, suddenly there would sound in the corridor the footsteps of a woman and the rustle of her dress.

  29. In rising I noticed that my head seemed to swim a little, and that my legs and arms retained their natural positions only when I bent my thoughts determinedly upon them.

  30. Traherne tried determinedly to give Crespin the same care and help that he had while his old affection for him still held—and the physician succeeded as well as the man could.

  31. But it found itself confronted determinedly by a strong man's pride.

  32. She was not going out, because of Chris's death, and he knew there were long hours when she sat alone, struggling determinedly with the socks she was knitting.

  33. With the curious constancy of the Irish, he had remained determinedly celibate.

  34. He drew a long breath and turned, determinedly smiling, to face the door.

  35. Though their responsibilities be pressing and heavy and the obstacles formidable and manifold, yet the spirit of our invincible Faith will enable them to conquer if they arise unitedly and determinedly and persevere till the very end.

  36. The Germans determinedly and unweariedly continued to mass new forces on their right.


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