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Example sentences for "negligently"

Lexicographically close words:
neglige; negligee; negligence; negligences; negligent; negligible; nego; negociate; negociated; negociating
  1. De Croix, negligently curling his mustache between his slender fingers, gazed at me with a blank stare.

  2. De Croix gave a deep sigh of relief, and rested back upon the cloak, negligently crossing his legs.

  3. Doubtless this was what so disgusted Wells, whose long black locks were worn in a simple queue, tied somewhat negligently with a dark cord.

  4. In this eligible situation and temper for receiving soft impressions, she sat negligently rocking herself in her chair, and polishing the lid of a copper saucepan!

  5. He dropped negligently the tumbler into the greasy dish, flung there the spoon and fork, then slipped in the plate with a push amongst the remnants of food.

  6. The redstart generally places its nest in a hole of a tree or wall; it is negligently formed of moss, stalks of grass, feathers, and hair.

  7. When wild, their nest, negligently formed of dried sticks, is tolerably secure when placed in a pine, but is often blown down when in a beech.

  8. He came to church every morning, preached commonly in his turn, and attended the evening anthem, that it might not be negligently performed.

  9. He laid the pistol negligently on the table.

  10. But Sebright was there, leaning his back negligently against the bulkhead behind Williams, and looking down on us seated on both sides of the long table.

  11. The Englishman took his pipe from his mouth, and, with the stem, pointed negligently to a window.

  12. The boy slouched toward him, extended his hand negligently and the Cuban dropped some three-centime pieces into it.

  13. There is reason to believe that we have negligently lost part of our vowels, and that the silent e which our ancestors added to most of our monosyllables, was once vocal.

  14. Prithee, unpin this lock and let it fall negligently behind my ear.

  15. Prue replied, seating herself and negligently pointing with her fan to a sufficiently distant chair.

  16. He had ornamented his hat with a cluster of peacock's feathers, but they were limp and broken, and now trailed negligently down his back.

  17. But he rolled over on one side, let his arm fall negligently down, drew a long sigh, and murmuring indistinctly, fell fast asleep again.

  18. Somewhat curious to conceive what Mademoiselle de Lacostellerie might mean by her appointment in the gallery, I avoided the groups where I perceived my acquaintances were, and strolled negligently on towards the place of meeting.

  19. Goodnight" And with that he strolled negligently from the room, and I heard him humming a tune as he mounted the stairs towards his bedroom.

  20. If a druggist negligently sell a deadly poison as and for a harmless medicine to A.

  21. This is one of that last batch, Joe," Short-Card Larry negligently informed Wallingford, with a meaning wink.

  22. This gate, once the scene of the magnificence of the Seffi family, the threshold of which was ever revered as sacred, is now deserted, and only now and then a solitary individual is seen to pass negligently through.

  23. The baroonee, which is a loose and ample robe with proportionally ample arms, generally made of cloth and faced with velvet, and thrown negligently over the shoulders.

  24. His long black hair was negligently pushed back from his pale face, and showed a want of care remarkable in a young man who was strikingly handsome, despite his doleful desponding expression.

  25. The one, which appeared to contain documents of some sort, he cast negligently on the fire, with the air of one who destroys that which is no longer of value to him.

  26. But this is an event of such magnitude, that either it must be an impudent fiction, or negligently omitted.

  27. As he reached the gate he looked at himself as if accustomed to take pride in his personal appearance, drew a handkerchief from his pocket and wound it negligently about his neck.

  28. As she spoke she waved one hand negligently toward the Aurora in the hall.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "negligently" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    carelessly; dispassionately; heedlessly; inadvertently; lightly; recklessly