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Example sentences for "immovably"

Lexicographically close words:
immortally; immortelle; immortelles; immovability; immovable; immoveable; immoveably; immune; immunes; immunisation
  1. The preamble of the Constitution plants the standard of the Common Law immovably in its foreground.

  2. But such as are not capable of repenting, cling immovably to sin, and are not delivered by the Divine mercy.

  3. For what befits a thing naturally and immovably must be the root and principle of all else appertaining thereto, since the nature of a thing is the first in everything, and every movement arises from something immovable.

  4. Consequently he does not hold that the soul has innate knowledge, as Plato, who held that the participated ideas remain immovably in the soul.

  5. She stopped, looking in astonishment at the tall black figure of the nurse, standing immovably by the window.

  6. High up, like a god, sat the drayman, his little slits of eyes above huge red cheeks fixed immovably on his horses' crests.

  7. Tom stared; then followed his cousin's eye, fixed immovably upon one little spot on the platform.

  8. Francesca was sitting, her hands supporting an aching head, her large eyes fixed mournfully and immovably upon something which she seemed to contemplate with a relentless earnestness, as though forcing herself to a distressing task.

  9. Then she was herself again and immovably cheerful in her secret heart.

  10. Somehow for Mrs. Maldon the carpet was solid concrete, and the legs of the table immovably embedded therein.

  11. His stumps were stuck immovably in his pockets.

  12. Spencer listened immovably to the music for a time.

  13. Miss Calista was known to be a kind and generous mistress, although she had her "ways," and insisted calmly and immovably upon wholehearted compliance with them.

  14. The blue motor scarf she had worn had slipped off her dark head; her face was white; her eyes, fixed immovably on Derek, seemed waiting for him to recognize that she was there.

  15. Her pale face grew paler, her eyes so dark, rested immovably on his, her hands remained clasped in front of her.

  16. So still she sat in a white loose gown, pale with watching, her eyes immovably fixed on him, her lips pressed together, and quivering at his faintest motion.

  17. But Beatrice remained just as casual as before, sitting easily but immovably in her corner of the sofa with her parasol lying lightly in her slim gloved hands.

  18. Beatrice gazed immovably out over the sea.

  19. Aunt Selina stared immovably at her bank book for a moment; then she got up and faced her nephew.

  20. At the end of each bench must be immovably fixed a bat rack, with fixtures for holding twenty bats; one such rack must be designated for the exclusive use of the Visiting Club, and the other for the exclusive use of the Home Club.

  21. They must be twelve feet in length, and must be immovably fastened to the ground.

  22. From the sustained and immovably fixed attention with which Florine had listened to Adrienne's dictating to Georgette her letter to M.

  23. Dusk had set in, and long, heavy steel-gray clouds stood immovably over the evening-red that glowed and trembled beneath them.

  24. Then, Ekkehard knelt down on the pebbly ground of the lake, so that the waters closed over his head, and rising again after a while, he stood there immovably with lifted arms, as if he were praying.

  25. Dame Hadwig had stood immovably all this time.

  26. Ekkehard's eyes were fixed immovably on the rose under her head-band, as he stepped up to her.

  27. Jumping up in excitement, he attempted to haul on the line, so as to bring Edgar to the surface by force, but to his consternation he found it to be immovably fixed.

  28. Baldwin nodded approval of this, but the nod was lost on his comrade owing to the fact that his helmet was immovably fixed to his shoulders.

  29. It is on me they are fixed--immovably fixed--as a victim which the spirit that floats over the body in that dead light of the moon demands, and will get.

  30. Inside the Forlorn Hope the mass of metal was urged into the shop, where Stevens clamped it immovably to the steel floor, before he took off his space-suit.

  31. The term to correctly describe what has taken place would be "the rise of gold;" but that term is scrupulously avoided, as implying that gold does not remain immovably fixed.

  32. His eyes were fixed immovably on his miserable household possessions, and they anxiously followed every breakable article as it went its airy way into the vessel's maw.

  33. The Flemish, like the Walloon communities, victims of the most frightful brutalities, subjected to a system of forced labor, decimated by deportations, have remained immovably faithful to King and country.

  34. When they fled before the flood of death, the church stood scatheless, built immovably upon the rock of the centuries.

  35. The ships were immovably "beset" by ice on the 25th: their situation was utterly helpless, all the power that could be applied not availing to turn their heads a single degree of the compass.

  36. It was now decided to abandon the Investigator, immovably fixed as she was in the ice.

  37. Hence it is clear that Christ, strictly speaking is immovably in this sacrament.

  38. Neither, therefore, if this sacrament be reserved until morning, will Christ's body be there; and so it is not immovably in this sacrament.

  39. Among the numerous members of the household was one who, from being a turnspit, had risen, chiefly in virtue of an immovably lugubrious expression of countenance, to be the earl's fool.


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