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Example sentences for "indulgently"

Lexicographically close words:
indulgence; indulgences; indulgencies; indulgent; indulgentiam; indulges; indulging; indult; induna; indunas
  1. He waited indulgently for the disclosure.

  2. Leonora smiled indulgently at Millicent with her pretty pouting face and her adorable artificiality, lounging on one of the sofas in the vast garish chamber.

  3. She was not at all hurt by Ethel's impassioned taunt, but rather amused, indulgently amused, that the girl should have so misread her.

  4. Paul Petrovitch exclaimed indulgently as he tickled Mitia's double chin with the tip of his forefinger.

  5. Yes, even Paul Petrovitch felt conscious of a touch of pleasant excitement, and smiled indulgently as he shook hands with the wanderers.

  6. My father remained at his place at the head of the table while I tried to eat, smiling indulgently at her ministrations.

  7. The proprietor of the Kingsbury Tavern smiled indulgently at this persiflage.

  8. We look indulgently upon their failings, even as they do on ours.

  9. Tacks grew so excited that he dropped a garden spade off the piazza and into a hot house below, breaking seven panes of glass, but the others only smiled indulgently and I went on.

  10. At some names they laughed delightedly, at some indulgently and even tenderly.

  11. Oh, my dear, you are only the excuse," said Madame, smiling indulgently at her.

  12. He smiled indulgently down on her: thought her face young and charming, charming.

  13. He laughed at me when I said that, while counting it no dishonour to be poor, I did count it something of a dishonour deliberately and self-indulgently to incur liabilities one might not be able to meet.

  14. Mrs. Marshall-Smith looked down at the grotesque little figure and touched the brown cheek indulgently with her forefinger.

  15. She smiled indulgently at her sister, but said nothing.

  16. Martha Ellen had indulgently chosen her pet pupil as heroine.

  17. Aunt Selina laughed indulgently as she rose and limped slowly indoors.

  18. She smiled indulgently at her mistress' words, as she bent over a fresh piece of toast.

  19. Lord Bryce, who had accepted philosophically the Presidential statement that the United States was not "concerned with the causes" of the war, could not regard so indulgently this latest judgment of Great Britain and Germany.

  20. She had occasionally other droll little ways of differing from the family, which were called indulgently "Lydia's notions.

  21. The Judge stood up, brushed the crumbs of his stolen feast from his well-fitting broadcloth, and smiled down indulgently at the unquiet little doctor.

  22. O Madam, what can I say to questions so indulgently put?

  23. While his elders looked indulgently on, the lad made a pass or two at an imagined adversary, and then he laughed again.

  24. Asa raised his brows, and smiled indulgently upon his kinsman.

  25. I've left you in no doubt," I indulgently smiled, "of my beliefs.

  26. He didn't say what it was, and I didn't ask, intimating thereby that I held it to be in this manner we were playing the game; but I indulgently questioned it in the light of its not yet having assisted him.

  27. Mr. Bill laughed indulgently because he was not afraid of anything, and admiringly because Tessie was so adorable when she was afraid of almost everything.

  28. He smiled indulgently and held out his hand to signify that the interview was over.

  29. For the moment I felt paternal, and indulgently consented.

  30. My Aunt Jessica rose, smiling indulgently upon me, as if I were a spoilt little boy, and took me on to the balcony, while Dora demurely retired to the bookshelves in the farther room.

  31. He laughed indulgently and poured Charley out a drink which made his eyes blink and snap and then he waved him graciously away.

  32. But he only smiled indulgently at her; she was a pale, anaemic, washed-out blonde and he had but small regard for the type.

  33. But the recording angel, looking kindly and indulgently at the honest face, smiles softly and forgets the pen in his hand.

  34. As it was, she was very indulgently disposed towards him.

  35. The lady addressed smiled indulgently at her old friend.

  36. She looked coldly at the threadbare sofa and indulgently at the young man who filled a corner of it.

  37. Morell, firm as a rock, looks indulgently at him.

  38. Morell, whom he has won over by a doglike devotion, looks up indulgently from The Church Reformer as he enters, and remarks) Well, Lexy!

  39. At all this sentimental enthusiasm Stella had looked on indulgently and now laughed outright, "What silly kids you two are," she said.

  40. He would smile indulgently when new comers, men of violent ideas, derided him and called him a poor old fellow.

  41. That your rigorous heart, if it could not itself be softened (moderating the power you had obtained over every one) had permitted other hearts more indulgently to expand!


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