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Example sentences for "nonchalantly"

Lexicographically close words:
nonagricultural; nonbreeding; nonce; nonchalance; nonchalant; nonclaimant; noncombatant; noncombatants; noncommissioned; noncommittal
  1. He played better than I did anticipate," said Mr. Ziegler, lighting a cigarette, after he had nonchalantly acknowledged the presentation to him of Miss Ingate.

  2. And he knocked nonchalantly on the door of the tank-room.

  3. He took it out and laid it nonchalantly in his lap.

  4. He walked nonchalantly aboard the Italian bark and went below.

  5. But Special Agent Billy Gard sallied forth nonchalantly against the whole army of Philistines, apparently without even a slingshot.

  6. He turned his face toward the wall of the restaurant while Jimmie the Monk tripped nonchalantly out into the street.

  7. The taxicab rumbled nonchalantly up the avenue for five or six blocks, while Burke worked in a vain effort to restore his fair prisoner to consciousness.

  8. Besides her hat, she carried and now nonchalantly drew refreshment from a stick of spirally striped candy inserted for half its length through the end of a lemon.

  9. Quite nonchalantly Mr. Bates, puffing at a particularly villainous stogie and with his hands resting idly in his pockets, swung after Mr. Ripley, keeping within almost precisely four feet of him.

  10. With this heroic intention he walked nonchalantly up the main street to the jigger-shop, which no underformer may enter until after four.

  11. He drew a long comfortable breath, threw one leg nonchalantly over the back of a near-by seat and clasped the skeleton in an affectionate embrace.

  12. Here is my tall friend Drummond marching nonchalantly among dangers of which he has not the least conception.

  13. He returned nonchalantly to his station, and asked, in commonplace tones: "How will you have the money, madam?

  14. There were no half-way measures in the code of an outlaw then; the pair who held us up would have taken our lives as nonchalantly as they relieved us of our material possessions had we proved in the least degree troublesome.

  15. Goodell lighted another cigarette and nonchalantly seated himself in the vacant chair.

  16. It's slipped to the floor," he nonchalantly concluded.

  17. Then, turning to Dutton, he nonchalantly remarked: "It must be somewhere in this hall; perhaps you will be good enough to look for it.

  18. The Orphan was smoking nonchalantly at the bar and Bill had just given the sheriff the victim's gun.

  19. He stepped off the veranda, crossed the little lawn to the village street, and began to saunter nonchalantly and indifferently oceanwards.

  20. Then, when he had gone, she tore the envelope from the missive, pausing to light a cigarette nonchalantly before she read it.

  21. She dropped Carlita's wrist, and placed her back nonchalantly against the door.

  22. Nonchalantly Big Tom shifted his weight from foot to foot, and chuckled through the stubble of his beard.

  23. Mr. Gibney immediately piped all hands on deck, armed them, and nonchalantly awaited the approach of what might or might not turn out to be an enemy.

  24. He leaned nonchalantly against the desk as a bellboy departed with the card.

  25. While the big man lounged nonchalantly against the safe, the other two were scuffling all over the floor and throwing chairs about.

  26. Whatever fate had in store for him could better be met, he thought swiftly at this juncture, provided he kept his temper, and so he spoke as nonchalantly as before.

  27. He was leaning nonchalantly against the table, his revolver in his hand, a look of absolute indifference upon his face.

  28. Limber and Bronco reached the outer edge of the crowd and pushed through it, but stopped as they saw a man saunter nonchalantly around the corner from the Main street.

  29. Else, graceful and ladylike, was sitting in a little red carriage, and Anna rode an Arab with the reins nonchalantly in her hand.

  30. Willy spoke extremely quickly, with a deliberate though slight hoarseness, briskly and yet nonchalantly with a combination of the Hungarian, French, Viennese and Jewish accents.

  31. And Epping nodded in undisguised satisfaction; while Ferdinand of Lotzen, sauntering nonchalantly over to the nearest window, cursed him under his breath for a meddler and a fool.

  32. So, opprobrious as the whole farce seemed to me, I pushed my hat back on my head and blinkingly stared at the three intruders as they sauntered nonchalantly into the room.

  33. But as the cream-colored figure drifted nonchalantly by the broad-shouldered man I caught a fleeting glimpse of something passing between them, a hint of one hand catching a white packet from another.

  34. His wives, stepping nonchalantly among the strangers, cleared away the remnants of the feast by the simple process of eating them.

  35. He was the sort of hero they had read about in novels--a handsome guardsman nonchalantly looking in at a Park Lane dance at midnight, or a brilliant attache to an embassy in touch with wonderful horizons.

  36. The voice seemed to emanate from a puff-fish, which floated rather nonchalantly at arms length away.

  37. He thought a moment, smiled once more, and waved his hands nonchalantly in the air.


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