He sat dumbly waiting, while Catherine chattered to him of commonplace things to win him back to his ordinary frame of mind.
The unimaginative, hard-working men, great and small, who served this flag afloat and ashore, nursed dumbly a mysterious sense of its greatness.
All the same she was dumbly conscious of the wrong being done to her; and like a child, she nursed her sense of the injustice until it showed itself in a continual mood of sullen, silent protest.
He touched his sister's hand, and dumbly looked into her happy face.
She watched him dumbly as he pulled a small glass flask out of his pocket and withdrew the cork.
With face in veil and seal on lip, In mute and strange companionship, Like thee we wander to and fro, Dumbly imploring as we go Pray for us!
To all who dumbly suffered, His tongue and pen he offered; His life was not his own, Nor lived for self alone.
He had followed her from remote lands, dumbly worshiping her, building in his foolish brain an air-castle of happiness, which by reason of her magic power she could always see plainly in his eyes.
It was something in my throat which shrieked it dumbly in the deafening silence in my room.
She sank on the sofa, her breast rising and falling, her gazedumbly fixed on him, as one under hypnosis.
At a sign from their leader he dropped dumbly into a section, settled himself next the frosty window, with his head shrunk down in his worn coat-collar, and his slouch hat pulled over his eyes.
By this time Kate had come down-stairs, and with pallid face was listening dumbly to her father's words.
Savagely, blindly, dumblyhe struggled against this awful unknown thing that was mastering him.
He looked at his fingers dumblyas if expecting to find them covered with blood.
Standing before her benefactress, her fingers fumbling impotently at the neck of the night-dress, the girl still continued to staredumbly into the calm, dark eyes before her.
He bended low above his dying friend, dumblygroping for his hand.
His eyes roved dumbly about the room, falling here and there upon many a thing, unnoticed in the first survey, that confirmed the assurance which now chilled him to the heart.
He wondered dumbly to himself what might be the cause of this strange calmness, this absolute indifference; he did not know how a master-sorrow can make all lesser irritations like the dust.
They shook as they received it, the thin fingers dumbly following its inscription, both hands enclosing it tightly, thrilling to the glad sensation.
He got up and took it away from him, and Tenney dumbly suffered it.
But a glance at Tenney's face, the tightness of reserve, the fanatical eyes, closed her lips, and they moved about together dumbly at their common tasks.
Still he held out his hand, and though she ignored it, her dumbly agonized look was aware of it.
At a late hour it began to sprinkle again, and, though no sound of shot or blast had broken the silence of the prairie, one by one the anxious hunters came straggling home, dumbly ate, and waited for the morning.
The little girl kept her eyes dumbly upon it, watching the crimson and gold slowly fade to royal purple where the King sat.
Nature had smiled mutely and dumbly at her sufferings for long months since then.
Mr. Chirgwin saw her silence, noted the little quiver of her mouth as he declared his own loss of faith, stroked the hand she thrust dumbly into his and felt her silence hurt his heart.
She waved him aside dumbly and tottered to a couch.
Her lips moved dumbly and the room seemed to quiver around her.
He turned, taking up the boy in his arms, and she dumblyfollowed him, trembling, faint, yet nerved by her fears to unusual exertion.
Looking dumblyon the ground, limping painfully, she hobbled after him, almost hanging on his arm.
She gazed at him dumbly with the same look of agonising perplexity, with a painful idea in her poor brain, and she still seemed to be trying to reach some conclusion.
So she stood suffering dumbly while he loaded his cream can and stood by the wheel ready to mount his wagon.
Butler backed away from the man in wild haste, and climbing into his buggy with trembling limbs drove off down the road, leaving Haskins seated dumbly on the sunny pile of sheaves, his head sunk into his hands.
Dumbly she forced her trembling body into subjection to her will.
They watched it dumbly in the silence of goodfellowship, till at last it topped the willows and shone in a broad, silver streak across the lake right up to the prow of the boat.
Her errand forgotten, Missy could only attempt a smile and dumbly extend the bouquet.
So she shook her head dumbly and Arthur grinned at her not unkindly.
She was afraid of one thing or another at home, but when he urged her to tell him the reason, she would look dumbly at him.
Maren sat dumbly knitting; her face was strangely set and dead-looking.
He rose as he spoke, and taking her hand, led her dumbly to a low-backed settee at the other end of the great room.
Richard shook his head dumbly and gently laid bare the white shoulder.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dumbly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
