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Example sentences for "indistinctly"

Lexicographically close words:
indisputably; indissolubility; indissoluble; indissolubly; indistinct; indistinctness; indistinguishable; indistinguishably; indite; indited
  1. I but indistinctly recall the fact itself--what wonder that I have utterly forgotten the circumstances which originated or attended it?

  2. The Persians called them devs; the Greeks indistinctly designated them as demons; the Egyptians knew them as afrites.

  3. Two per cent Board of Trade duty, indistinctly on all foreign property, equivalent to 2 1/2 or 3%.

  4. Resemble adult above but breast grayish indistinctly streaked and with a pale buff band; belly white.

  5. Outer tail-feather largely white; next one only tipped with white; upperparts grayish brown indistinctly streaked; underparts rich buff, breast and sides streaked with blackish.

  6. Above brown, back indistinctly streaked with black; below whitish, breast and sides streaked with black.

  7. Headlands and mountains with cloud-capped pinnacles appeared and faded away; ships under sail floated across the sky; towers and palaces reared their forms indistinctly amid the vapour, and then vanished, like the baseless fabric of a dream.

  8. Startled then by the voice so near him, Graham raised his head, looked round, and beheld very indistinctly the person seated so near him.

  9. I have certainly seen indistinctly the form of greenish slopes and rocks, but only, I must admit, very indistinctly indeed.

  10. The mangroves beyond the stream loomed indistinctly through the blue haze.

  11. Then a firm footfall approached the door, which began to open, and stood ajar, as some indistinctly heard question arrested the new-comer.

  12. I therefore really assume, though it cannot be proved, that whenever Kant spoke of the thing in itself, in the obscure depths of his mind he already always indistinctly thought of the will.

  13. The words fell dimly and indistinctly upon my ears.

  14. Pausing for a moment to take out a fresh cigarette, the sound of voices, close to where I stood, fell indistinctly upon my ears.

  15. These stripes are found either over the whole fruit, or only very indistinctly on the side exposed to the sun.

  16. These are either over the whole fruit, or only indistinctly on the side exposed to the sun.

  17. In the Acadian they are cream-buff indistinctly streaked with grayish.

  18. Immature birds are streaked below with blackish; the tail is dark grayish brown indistinctly barred, but the shoulder is always rusty, though this is not a marking one can see in life.

  19. Sharp-tailed Sparrow but is paler above; the throat, breast and sides are washed with cream-buff and indistinctly streaked with ashy.

  20. And even the obtuse lime-burner felt his nerves shaken, as this strange man looked inward at his own heart, and burst into laughter that rolled away into the night, and was indistinctly reverberated among the hills.

  21. Such ideas glimmer through the mist of Wakefield's mind, and render him indistinctly conscious that an almost impassable gulf divides his hired apartment from his former home.

  22. The fierce yelpings of the watch-dogs gradually ceased, and the howling wolf was but indistinctly heard in the distance.

  23. The horses could be indistinctly seen advancing slowly and reluctantly through the yellowish gloom with a curious, sliding motion, as if stepping on ice.

  24. Against this red glare many black shadows--the dark forms of the firemen--could now be indistinctly seen moving like evil spirits around the smoking, flaming pits.

  25. An indistinctly striated layer, the future layer of nerve-fibres.

  26. They are certainly at first very indistinctly separated from the mesoblast on the two sides, and Calberla also finds that there is no sharp line separating them from the secondary hypoblast (fig.

  27. The medullary cord in this region becomes very early divided into three indistinctly separated lobes, representing the fore, the mid, and the hind brains: of these the anterior is the smallest.

  28. Owing to the opacity of the embryo, the muscle-plates are only indistinctly indicated in fig.

  29. He confined himself to remarking that, as all religious forces are indistinctly intense and contagious, it is wise not to approach them except with respectful precautions, no matter what direction their action may be exercised in.

  30. An European lamp with a green shade standing on the table made all this indistinctly visible to Dain.

  31. He could indistinctly hear Babalatchi's voice, then the crowd opened before the aged statesman and closed after him with an excited hum, ending in a loud shout.

  32. The painful custom in the Church of England of reading indistinctly and in an assumed voice has alienated simple people in every parish; and the average preaching is painful.

  33. By the dim, fitful gleam of the fire, probably the strangest and most costly necklace in the world became indistinctly visible.

  34. Silence settled over the plain; but, presently, a low moaning sound came indistinctly from the east.

  35. The pores are minute, indistinctly stratified, tawny-ferruginous, the mouths rhubarb-color.

  36. The people round about caught up the king's words, indistinctly as they were uttered; and first there was a murmur among them, and then a loud shout.

  37. All indistinctly apprehend a bliss On which the soul may rest, the hearts of all Yearn after it, and to that wished bourn All therefore strive to tend.

  38. Sometimes they could hear indistinctly the voice of a speaker; but the words could not be distinguished.

  39. The others had withdrawn to the shadow of the bank; the sound of their voices came indistinctly across the strip of shore.

  40. Slowly his senses awakened, and he could see indistinctly the silent forms,--some standing motionless, others walking slowly about.

  41. They are singing again," he said, listening to the droning chant that came indistinctly through the dark.

  42. Lying on his side he could see indistinctly the council-house.

  43. He could not see her face, for it was pressed to the ground, but the clotted scalp showed indistinctly in the shadow.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "indistinctly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    broadly; generally; indefinitely; vaguely