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Example sentences for "insecurely"

Lexicographically close words:
insectivores; insectivorous; insectorum; insects; insecure; insecurity; insemination; insensate; insensibility; insensible
  1. Decrepit doorways led to the various 'shops' on the ground floor; those on the upper floor were reached by narrow wooden stairs, which seemed to cling insecurely to the exterior walls.

  2. His good humour was still precarious, insecurely re-established, and Anna obediently left the room.

  3. The last workmen's car of the morning was just leaving Bursley: it was packed inside and outside, and the conductor hung insecurely on the step.

  4. Well, on that rude, secure basis there has now been piled the most chancy and insecurely experimental system of conventions and assumptions about money and credit it is possible to imagine.

  5. Irish literature which in earlier days, wandering in their own land, they had found drifting insecurely hither and thither.

  6. The scorbutic process involves the periosteum so that it is no longer normal but becomes insecurely attached to the shaft of the bone, and is readily stripped off by hemorrhage.

  7. Scurvy involves a periosteum which is not normal; it is insecurely attached to the shaft of the bone, so that it is readily stripped off by hemorrhage.

  8. The infracted ends occasionally may be seen held insecurely by a delicate band of periosteum.

  9. All the lamps of the promenade were insecurely flickering.

  10. White hair sprouted about his ears; gold gleamed in his mouth; and a pair of spectacles hung insecurely balanced half-way down his nose; his waistcoat seemed to be stretched tightly over a perfectly smooth hemisphere.

  11. There were two doors in the wall immediately facing the front entrance, and on each side of the latter there was a small window, both insecurely shuttered.

  12. The manhole was of very large size and insecurely fastened, and was blown off.

  13. The cover at one end was insecurely fastened and was blown off.

  14. Christophe's window was insecurely fastened, and was burst open with a bang, and the warm wind rushed in.

  15. But let us admit that they exist, and that in the souls of the young they are insecurely fettered.

  16. But the jewelled butterfly which loosely held the fold in place was insecurely fastened, and the front of the gown slipped to the side, exposing a firm white breast, which had never known the lip-clasp of a child.

  17. A hundred feet of broken ledges and insecurely heaped rocks were between it and the earth, and because of the rocks, which might be displaced by the touch of hand or foot, but one man climbed at a time.

  18. The sight of a Mongol woman astride a galloping pony was not a thing to be forgotten; ears of hair flapping, high hat insecurely poised on top, silver ornaments and white teeth flashing.

  19. My stores and bedding and other things were packed in large covered baskets insecurely fastened with padlocks.

  20. A heavy sea struck the port, the carronade insecurely fastened, had recoiled and broken its chain, and begun its terrible course over the deck.

  21. A heavy sea struck the port, the carronade, insecurely fastened, had recoiled and broken its chain, and began its terrible course over the deck.

  22. Dutton saw himself defeated by the inopportune collapse of the bridge, which had been insecurely lashed together.

  23. The cadets who at first sat insecurely in the saddle were beginning to learn how to maintain themselves, and one afternoon the drill master announced that the next day they would be allowed to go out on the cavalry plain.


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