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Example sentences for "little wistfully"

  • He smiled a little at the seeming paradox--smiled a little wistfully.

  • The Patriarch bowed his head affirmatively, smiling a little wistfully.

  • Helena's brown eyes, a little wistfully, a little softly, held upon the Flopper.

  • Mrs Blake smiled a little wistfully, and moved toward the door, which he hastened to open for her.

  • She tried to make her sister join in, but Eileen only smiled a little wistfully, and when no one was looking, stole off by herself to the seat down by the water, where Lawrence had found her in the afternoon.

  • She even ruminated a little wistfully, if only Lawrence had not been Lawrence.

  • I have to," she apologized a little wistfully.

  • Thank you," smiled the boy again, a little wistfully.

  • I should say they were," answered Genevieve a little wistfully.

  • The child lifted her eyes now to her father's face, a little wistfully.

  • The child looked a little wistfully, but presently said no; and Mr. Randolph left her, to do as she had said.

  • Daisy looked a little wistfully at her cousin.

  • The child put one foot over the edge of the bed and looked down at it--a little wistfully--and placed the other beside it.

  • He only dreamed the dream, a little wistfully, as he went in and out, and his thought dwelt always on Athens and her beauty.

  • I should like to taste one--" She was looking at them a little wistfully.

  • He finished a little wistfully, and stood looking up at the young man who towered a good head and shoulders above him.

  • Faith looked a little wistfully, but only said, "We must look at it after the nutting is done.

  • I don't know--" she said, looking a little wistfully.

  • The child looked at her a little wistfully.


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little wistfully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    little astonished; little bit; little brown; little danger; little fish; little fresh; little garden; little glass; little gold; little inclination; little laugh; little library; little man; little party; little powdered; little princess; little salt and pepper; little satisfaction; little shake; little small; little snow; little solution; little tree; little value; little wonder; valiant knight