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Example sentences for "maddeningly"

Lexicographically close words:
madde; madded; madden; maddened; maddening; maddens; madder; maddest; madding; made
  1. Teresita was sweet and winsome and maddeningly alluring; he knew it, he felt it still.

  2. But Teresita was in one of her perverse moods and the mockery was not all in her voice; her eyes were maddeningly full of it as she looked from him to the stretched riata.

  3. Progress was maddeningly slow, and before many minutes had passed every man was puffing and blowing like a spent horse.

  4. It travelled at only a little more than a walking pace and the stops were maddeningly frequent.

  5. So he settled the pillows, and she lay down, and he covered her up; and as he did so, in spite of his anger with her and all his hurt pride he had the most maddeningly strong desire to kiss her and let her rest in his arms.

  6. When the cold chime of St. Peter's struck three he lay still maddeningly awake in a feverish muddle of thought.

  7. Somehow, somewhere it was maddeningly entangled with something in the boat.

  8. The ground was thick with last year's leaves that rustled maddeningly with every step.

  9. He stopped thinking about the mystery of the blown-up tank, a solution to which seemed to dance maddeningly just out of his mental reach, and found himself a place among the rocks to wait.

  10. And why were they so maddeningly elusive?

  11. Mother came in just in time to extricate her, and buttoned the dress with maddeningly deliberate fingers.

  12. All day they would toil over the infinitude of prairie, the sun that hid nightly behind that maddeningly elusive vanishing-point, the horizon, their only guide.

  13. To add to his original concentration the Senior Surgeon's linen collar began to chafe him maddeningly under his chin.

  14. Or any other thing that feels maddeningly artificial!

  15. This was the mood in which she seemed farthest away from him; when she felt afraid of his cleverness; and when what had been simple became maddeningly twisted up like an object in a nightmare.

  16. And now, Ben Taylor, while I feel sure you are on the right track at last, and are going to make good, you seem to be moving so maddeningly slow and deliberate.

  17. But, my dear fellow, you move so maddeningly slow and deliberate," said he; but I made no reply.

  18. Voices rose from below--unintelligible words in maddeningly familiar accents.

  19. Closer, sweeping through the wood, Vic heard the crash of the pursuit, yet the other was maddeningly slow of speech.

  20. He could not endure that which beset him; it was unbearable, because her eyes had maddeningly seemed to ask him some wistful question.

  21. The quality he found most maddeningly irritating in Rosalie was her obviously absolute unconsciousness of the fact that it was entirely natural and proper that her resources should be in her husband's hands.

  22. It was hard, devilishly and maddeningly hard, to discern what these people were really thinking.

  23. He was gradually but surely climbing that ladder, tediously and maddeningly slow though it seemed sometimes.

  24. Incongruously enough the unbidden lines that continued to pass maddeningly through my mind, in time with the steady rise and fall of the piston, were those of a G.

  25. My thigh throbbed relentlessly and maddeningly as I stumbled on, taking my direction as best I could from the stars.

  26. There fell a dead silence in the room, a stillness in which the quiet ticking of the clock on the mantelpiece became maddeningly obtrusive.

  27. His progress was very slow, maddeningly slow it seemed to Chris.

  28. Their squirrel and deer rifles had missed him, but his back had been peppered with birdshot in a score of places, the leaden pellets penetrating maddeningly in a score of places just under the skin.

  29. When it became maddeningly unendurable, he sprang, only to be jerked back by the ten strong men who held the rope to his neck.


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