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Example sentences for "grudgingly"

Lexicographically close words:
grubstaked; grudge; grudged; grudges; grudging; grue; gruel; grueling; gruelling; gruels
  1. Economic reconstruction of the reunited country has proven difficult as aging Communist Party leaders have only grudgingly initiated reforms necessary for a free market.

  2. Student and labor unrest during the 1990s have pressured the monarchy (one of the oldest on the continent) to grudgingly allow political reform and greater democracy.

  3. Somewhat grudgingly and suspiciously, therefore, had Ben nodded greeting and looked the "young feller" over.

  4. He threatened Hershie with eviction, told him he was in violation of the lease, quoted the relevant sections of the Tenant Protection Act from memory, then grudgingly gave in to Hershie's pleas.

  5. The super wasn't happy about being roused from his sitcoms, but he grudgingly allowed Hershie to squirt the rent money at his comm.

  6. And what is more significant, she has become supremely contented with the narrow sphere which man has grudgingly given her.

  7. And then, and the feeling was as if he watched for the culmination of a well-understood and expected movement of familiar machinery--his horse's feet slid grudgingly over the edge.

  8. One of the lounging figures rose grudgingly and drew aside with him.

  9. And they gave it that grudgingly and are that narked about it, it makes me sick.

  10. Of course, when the matter is stripped to bare facts, the truth of your remarks is irrefutable, but we must gauge things comparatively, and remember how many other nations won't even grudgingly free their women.

  11. She practically invited me to invite herself and Charlotte to lunch with me--she somewhat grudgingly included Charlotte.

  12. The second violin grudgingly tightened the E string; then all her strings in turn, lengthening the process as much as possible.

  13. In every instance they have continued voluntarily to pay their rent, and have grudgingly yielded a second tribute to the Government nominee, and have further paid in respect of their lands a tax to the Government.

  14. It was of no use to offer them till she was weakening in the search, and she would take them grudgingly with, "They don't suit me.

  15. It would be a tribute to his work, of all the greater value because he knew it would be bestowed grudgingly and unwillingly, and he was keenly interested in and proud of his work.

  16. Accompanied by Whitney, I went to Etah, and for this part of the journey Murphy grudgingly gave me a scant food supply for a week, for which I gave him a memorandum.

  17. They raised their heads, turned, and to our delight and relief, grudgingly walked off seaward on the moving ice.

  18. The public responded but grudgingly to his appeals for aid.

  19. The Allies and their sympathizers grudgingly admit that they are only too fearful that it may be true.

  20. But you may go up and look at the black good-for-nothing if you like," she said, grudgingly enough I thought.

  21. Having proved to the last resource of her ingenuity that Jim was more than human in his loyalty, she seemed disposed to admit, though grudgingly enough, that I myself might be not less than human to have won him so utterly.

  22. There, they take with them the serious handicap of the prison brand; and there, crime-free mechanics grudgingly yield them place and portion.

  23. Aside from the fact that crime-free journeymen mechanics work grudgingly with the crime-branded, he has nothing commanding to offer when and where processes of elimination follow natural grooves.

  24. The hours which she spent with him were intensely painful, and as the days went by he became more and more exacting, more and more resentful of her absence, and grudgingly jealous of Vernon.

  25. Would the worlds out there become mere plundered planets with a portion of the aborigines' land grudgingly set apart for reservations?

  26. Had there been time, Odin might have grudgingly given Grim Hagen a few kind words for the work he had done and the tribute he had paid Maya.

  27. There was a moment's hesitation, during which a brief argument took place between the woman and some one else inside, then the door was grudgingly opened wide enough for John to enter, when it was promptly closed.

  28. It was not unnatural that the inquisitors and their subordinates should seek to share in this, but the claim was grudgingly admitted, as it diminished the portions of the town officers, and it led to bickerings.

  29. The policeman grudgingly growled the information over his shoulder while waiting for the station to answer the call from his box.

  30. He pointed to policemen who had taken refuge in strips of shade which had been cast grudgingly by the high buildings.

  31. Grudgingly he was forced to admit that she had changed for the better.

  32. It was the third time in their walk that George had spoken grudgingly of his wife, but this did not strike Abner as strange, for it was exactly the attitude not only of his father but of most of the men with whom he had worked at Mawne.

  33. Separate Schools were at first grudgingly granted as a privilege, but not as a right.

  34. A few grudgingly paid mercenaries were not the material with which to defend such an empire.

  35. The prior groaned aloud, and turned grudgingly to his little bag.

  36. A partial remedy for the scandals and hardships of the existing system was at last grudgingly provided in the civil divorce law of 1857.

  37. It seemed an eternity till the door was grudgingly opened and a white-faced, gruff boy asked unrecognizingly what she wanted.


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