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Example sentences for "ingloriously"

Lexicographically close words:
ingine; ingle; inglenook; ingleses; inglorious; ingot; ingots; ingraft; ingrafted; ingrafting
  1. And all the more if that be sedentary, uneventful, and ingloriously safe.

  2. For I had failed ingloriously to get the address for myself; and I felt a sure conviction that Bellairs had done better, or he had still been here and still cultivating Mr. Denman.

  3. But King, with desperate purpose written eloquently over his face, went to bat and ingloriously fouled out to third-baseman, and the half was over.

  4. Thus ingloriously ended the great dream of a French Empire in the East.

  5. If, therefore, you would know the chief reason why the Spaniards so often returned ingloriously home from Chaco, without even obtaining a sight of the savages, it was that they could not swim.

  6. At last despairing of a reencounter with the enemy, the Spaniards returned ingloriously home, with empty hands, and horses miserably fatigued.

  7. He had foretold that his adversary would "ingloriously fly;" and that adversary was pressing him closely.

  8. There is no necessity to defend the good name of the officers and men who were so ingloriously routed.

  9. Both Lee and Loring, deeply chagrined, were reluctant to give up a campaign so hopefully commenced and so comprehensively planned, but thus far so ingloriously executed.

  10. Holly Cross got to first, and managed to steal second and third, while Kindlings Woodhouse and Bricktop ingloriously fanned.

  11. It seemed to promise well, but Roy Conklin, out on left field was right under it, and Dutch ingloriously came back from first.

  12. He stole third, and then had to stay there and watch the Jackson twins and Dutch Housenlager ingloriously fan the air.

  13. In spite of the superficiality of his own arguments, which I was not learned enough to detect, I was ingloriously routed.

  14. Moreover, they then commanded him to be ingloriously interred at Wareham; envying him even holy ground when dead, as they had envied him his royal dignity while living.

  15. Indeed, it was claimed that he let a cannon-ball drop when he ought to have caught it, and it was not disputed that he had been ingloriously knocked over by a sand-bag projected by the strong arms of the young maiden.

  16. The first time he tried the game on me, I marched up to him, and by a dexterous pass, seized his red neck in my hand, and confining his wings down with my arm, walked him ingloriously out of the yard.

  17. And likely as not I shall fail ingloriously to-day," said she.

  18. Though "the bill" was now ingloriously abandoned by Lord Liverpool, the queen received but little benefit.

  19. The young monarch, with his favorite, Cilli, fled ingloriously to Vienna, leaving Hunniades to breast as he could the Turkish hosts.

  20. Leopold, with his family, at midnight, departed ingloriously from the city, to seek a distant refuge.

  21. Sunday night I spent ingloriously in a cell in Scotland Yard.

  22. So she reread the latter portion of the fifth letter, which pictured her hero marched off ingloriously to Scotland Yard and with a worried little sigh, went below to join her father.

  23. So, the herald was a decided failure, and the crowd hooted with great energy, as he pranced ingloriously away.

  24. In 1715 a number of officers, however, who drew this recompence from the public, most ingloriously joined the Pretender.

  25. There is no account that the old hero "ingloriously fled," but it is in evidence that he retired with commendable dispatch to a safer place.

  26. Coke and Story will befriend poor Elliott much more effectually than the Muses, who have most ingloriously snubbed him.

  27. Frederick, struck with terror, lost his presence of mind, and ingloriously fled with the rest.

  28. Maria Louisa, the daughter of the Cæsars, was then living ingloriously at Parma.


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