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Example sentences for "gingerly"

Lexicographically close words:
gingalls; gingelly; gingen; ginger; gingerbread; gingham; ginghams; gink; ginkgo; ginks
  1. Simeon turned gingerly into Pollard Street-half-way to the station.

  2. The electric tram slid in thunder down Trafalgar Road, and stopped for him with a jar, and he gingerly climbed into it, practising all precautions on behalf of his violoncello.

  3. After considerable scurrying about inside, plainly distinguished through the thin planking, the door was gingerly opened a few inches and a touzled head appeared in the slit.

  4. In his other hand he gingerly held a quaint little Indian basket, gaily stained, and inwoven with sweet-scented grass.

  5. Keeping it perfectly horizontal he carried it carefully out to the waiting automobile and placed it gingerly in the box.

  6. The door was opened and we followed gingerly across the dirty deck of the freight ship.

  7. In breathless silence the lid was slowly forced open and the splintered pieces gingerly removed.

  8. She enjoyed it immensely, yet rested her hand very gingerly upon his shoulder.

  9. I said nothing, and she replaced it under the pillow, handling the deadly weapon as gingerly as if it were the frailest glass.

  10. Instructing Britton and the two brothers to follow me in turn, I clambered over the wide stone sill and lowered myself gingerly to the floor.

  11. Suddenly he strode across the room and gingerly rooted among the odds and ends with the toe of his highly polished boot.

  12. She gingerly moved over to where the purse was resting and peeked in.

  13. Thank you," she said and gingerly took a small bite.

  14. Yet when he approached gingerly he was received with flattened ears and a snort of anger.

  15. The latter gingerly approached the rider, who sat perfectly at ease in the saddle; most apparently he was in no haste to leave.

  16. They filed up onto the terrace, hesitated, then shook hands, and sat down gingerly in the chairs.

  17. Gingerly I fitted the U-shaped band to my head.

  18. Some twenty minutes later he led their horses for them gingerly down the slippery rock gorge, and waited at the bottom while six men wound the gate up slowly.

  19. Neither of them saw an elbow laid on the window-ledge of a room above the arch; it disappeared, and very gingerly a bared black head replaced it.

  20. I wonder old Jane hasn't been up to see how I am," said Aleck, as he handled his comb as gingerly as the gardener did his spade.

  21. He unceremoniously shoved the branch into the hands of his confederate, and then produced from one of his pockets a silver cigarette box, which he gingerly opened to reveal to the gaze a conglomerate mass of angle worms and grubs.

  22. He took the branch and gingerly dropped the hook into the dancing pool.

  23. Mrs. Ivy, holding her skirts very high and picking her way gingerly around the frozen puddles, was the first to reach him.

  24. One of the men, who evidently lived in the house, stepped gingerly across the hall, turned the knob and pushed the door in ever so little.

  25. Now, fully arrayed, Sullivan felt his way gingerly to the door.

  26. Follansbee wondered how long it would take to deliver the Admiral's order and felt his way gingerly through the crowded street.

  27. We trod gingerly on the path, but the gravel stuck to our wet soles, and grated horribly in a little tiled veranda with a glass door leading within.

  28. Holden assisted by two waiters lifted Beatrice into the cab and laid her gingerly on the seat, while Margaret speedily followed, and then the doctor himself jumped in and the downcast party drove back to Le Chateau.

  29. Right" responded the man and he stood aside while Cyril and Mr. Palsey came gingerly out carrying Helen between them.

  30. Therefore, each morning we could observe a half dozen or so men gingerly leading wicked looking little animals out to the sand "to take the pitch out of them.

  31. The stranger perched gingerly on the edge of a chair, with an appearance less of embarrassment than of habitual alertness.

  32. If one gingerly cuts off the top of the plant, crushing the fleshy part into a pulpy mass with a handy stick, cool refreshing water is revealed, fit for drinking and sufficient for one person.

  33. The basin of water was placed gingerly upon the table, and the Professor emptied all the pills into it, picking up also the one that was on the anvil and putting it with the others.

  34. One of the men stepped gingerly forward and picked up the brick, holding it far from his body, as he tip-toed up to the platform, where he laid it down carefully on the desk before the Professor.

  35. A gingerly groping hand applied to various parts of his body took stock of the exterior costs of that healthy fight in the gambling palace.

  36. Billiard gingerly picked one of the strange balls and minutely examined the hooked prickles of the reddish covering.

  37. Already provided with the needful stick, it was but the work of a moment to insert it in the crevice of the loosely-fitting door, to raise the hook, and step gingerly in.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gingerly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    calculating; canny; careful; carefully; cautious; chary; circumspect; considerate; deliberate; discreet; discreetly; easy; gingerly; guarded; heedful; hesitant; judicious; judiciously; mindful; noncommittal; pawky; politic; prudent; regardful; safe; tentative; thorough; uncommunicative; unenterprising; wary