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Example sentences for "morosely"

Lexicographically close words:
morocco; moroccos; moron; morons; morose; moroseness; morow; morowe; morphia; morphin
  1. She took you in, too," morosely remarked Lavretsky.

  2. His small, malicious eyes looked out morosely from beneath the heavy, apparently swollen eyelids.

  3. Morosely he ate of Mrs. Kelty's boiled beef and bread pudding; morosely he sat in his lonely stall of a bedroom and glowered at a hole in the red carpet.

  4. Leaning on the rail, Chester gazed morosely at the retreating metropolitan sky-line.

  5. So I just sat, thinking morosely about non-forged cash-return forms, and coincidences, and likely spots to hide a body in the Asteroid Belt.

  6. As I clopped morosely back to the dome, I nibbled at Karpin's story in my mind.

  7. He was now morosely trudging along by the side of Gokal Singh, with whom as a Hindu dog he had nothing in common, but to whom as a soldier and man of violence he was invariably respectful.

  8. Peasants, men and women with their heads wrapped up and their skirts tucked up, would stare morosely at our windows, kick up a row and insist on the lady of the house coming out to them; and they would curse and swear.

  9. He looked up morosely as the door opened, but the embittered resentment which his features wore and with which he met everyone belonging to the hated soldiers quartered in the house, softened somewhat as he recognized the visitor.

  10. He spent the week wandering morosely from one place to another, sometimes accompanied by Thomas Boyd and sometimes all alone.

  11. He grinned and then looked morosely down at his hands.

  12. Finally he walked across the floor, kicking the portmanteau out of his way, and lay down on the bed, folding his arms under his head, and staring up morosely at the ceiling.

  13. Chrisfield sat on a stump morosely whittling at a stick with a pocket knife.

  14. He stared morosely at the grey ashes until he heard Walters's voice beside him: "I've got you all fixed up.

  15. He pursed his lips, depreciatory, lifted his shoulders not quite happily, and swung one lanky leg across the other as he slouched, morosely eyeing the sheets of sapphire that made their prison walls.

  16. So long," he added morosely as Whitaker opened the cab door; "sorry I ever laid eyes on you.

  17. I had no chance of another word with her, and rode morosely by Lorgnac's side.

  18. He watched the latter morosely as he paused to give an order to one of the men, who promptly seized his hat and followed him from the room.

  19. Directly across from them Bixton had been morosely watching the quartette.

  20. He wandered morosely through the crowd in the train of his fat familiar like a lost soul outside the gates of Paradise.

  21. Monkey was standing morosely in the garden underneath.

  22. Mike the Angel stepped into the cargo air lock of the Brainchild, stood morosely in the center of the cubicle, and watched the outer door close.

  23. Someone's going to get galloping claustrophobia before it's over, anyway," said Multhaus morosely as he followed Mike down the hallway in the direction from which Snookums had come.

  24. Hungry" Thompson looked over to where Douglass was morosely glaring over the demolished ruins of his spring's labor.

  25. He seemed to be brooding morosely over some inner problem which frequently furrowed his forehead and made him very restless.

  26. Foma did not give in, bending his head morosely and confusedly.

  27. Whenever he had been carried away by his work he regarded people morosely and piteously, nor did he give himself rest while hunting for roubles.

  28. He glared morosely at Draycott; until, suddenly, a dawning look of joy spread over his face.

  29. The trench settled down to silence as the company relief was completed, and Reginald morosely nursed his grievance.

  30. The peasant timidly and morosely started back, looked at him.

  31. Fanny Fitz has since admitted that, in spite of the wrath that burned within her, the sight of Mr. Gunning morosely dabbing his long nose with the repulsive sponge that was shared by the troupe, almost moved her to compassion.

  32. The mother, who had been the first victim, was morosely licking herself, shuddering effectively, and coldly ignoring her oppressor's apologies.

  33. One or two of the faces were excitedly flushed; several others were morosely dark.

  34. With no purpose in mind, they mechanically went out to the alley, where Penrod leaned morosely against the fence, and Duke stood shivering close by, his figure still emaciated and his tail absolutely withdrawn from view.

  35. It proved not ineffective there, and presently, as its new owner sat morosely at table, he began to feel slightly dizzy and his eyes refused him perfect service.

  36. Bobby sat up, and peering at his luminous wrist-watch, morosely acquiesced in his menial's gruesome statement.

  37. Peredonov sat morosely by himself in front of the table crumpling the corner of the tablecloth in his fingers.

  38. Peredonov looked morosely and timorously on these boys, and avoided them, muttering something to himself.

  39. Peredonov looked morosely at Sasha, who was timidly silent.

  40. Peredonov looked morosely at her and said: "I'm smelling to see whether you haven't put poison in it!

  41. The cart was quite a large one, but Peredonov morosely surveyed it and announced: "I'm not going.

  42. Yes, but he shouldn't have come to us but to some other kind of institution," said Peredonov morosely and as if reluctantly.

  43. He walked morosely after Vershina along the garden-path, past the neglected clumps of raspberry canes and currants with their red and black clusters.

  44. Peredonov morosely dragged the cat along on the cord without the least embarrassment.

  45. Peredonov rose also, and crossing his hands on his stomach, looked morosely at the rug under the Marshals feet.

  46. I demanded, resenting the fact that he could stand as silent as a December beehive before my morosely questioning eyes.


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