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Example sentences for "fleetingly"

Lexicographically close words:
fleeter; fleetes; fleetest; fleeth; fleeting; fleetly; fleetness; fleets; fleg; flensing
  1. She remembered fleetingly that they had something to do with the story of Ste.

  2. Dworn wondered fleetingly whether any living thing had been here when the cliffs fell.

  3. As he scrambled over the rugged hilltop, he saw fleetingly what went on in the arena of battle--the allied peoples were being driven back, forced to concentrate their fire power on beating off aerial onslaughts.

  4. She looked up fleetingly into his eyes, leant back her head and laughed.

  5. Ross wondered fleetingly why the other had not made sure of him earlier.

  6. The Beaker trader Rossa rubbed sweating palms on his kilt and thought fleetingly of forest ghosts and other mysteries.

  7. He wondered fleetingly if SatCom had terrorist insurance.

  8. Schindler felt his bleeding lip as he recovered his balance, and he fleetingly considered just taking her out with a quick burst, nice and simple.

  9. Glancing out again at the vapor-shrouded floor of the hangar, she fleetingly wondered if maybe she'd been seeing things.

  10. As Vance took the sheet, it reminded him fleetingly of the 'paper' Alex Novosty had given him that morning atop the Acropolis.

  11. He fleetingly thought about turning them off, then realized they weren't manually operated.

  12. At that moment he also caught himself wondering fleetingly how he'd ever gotten into this crazy situation.

  13. In his shallow soul no emotion lived long; greed of gold now obliterated the little ripples that another greed had fleetingly made.

  14. Gloria chose the moment to lift her eyes again fleetingly to King's.

  15. Nor was Barlow the man to find fault, regret fleetingly though he did.

  16. Andy assented somewhat dubiously; it had never just struck him that way; he thought fleetingly that perhaps it was because he had never come across any rare, old wine.

  17. Just when he was given over to the most gloomy forebodings, a white square stood out for a moment sharply against a background of pines, far below him in a coulee where the sun was peering fleetingly before it dove out of sight over a hill.

  18. George's drawn eyelids twitched; his misted glance rested fleetingly upon the two protesting motorists, and the old imperious spirit within him flickered up in a single word.

  19. Miss Redmond looked into the smooth, neat countenance, upon which no record either of experience or of thought was engraved, and decided fleetingly that he was lying.

  20. With a sudden last lurch she disappeared entirely, and only widening circles fleetingly marked the place of her going.


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