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Example sentences for "pointedly"

Lexicographically close words:
poinsettia; poinsettias; point; pointblank; pointed; pointer; pointers; pointes; pointeth; pointing
  1. The widow turned pointedly away and began to stir something on the stove, and did not look at him.

  2. He refilled the water bags and remarked pointedly that it would take an hour for the water to cool in them and that they must be left alone in the meantime.

  3. But the awful reality does not always come home so pointedly as in this homely jug, which in its way records the "simple annals of the poor.

  4. A mug or a jug with an inscription may tell a story of popular party feeling as pointedly as a broadsheet or a political lampoon.

  5. Submission to the inevitable, as Don Juste calls it, is all very well, but when the inevitable is called Pedrito Montero there is no need to exhibit pointedly the whole extent of your surrender.

  6. Merton trailed them a bit, not remaining too pointedly near the cabin.

  7. The prose of Cato abounds with sarcastic reflections, pointedly expressed.

  8. The terrible insecurity of life under Nero is here pointedly hinted at.

  9. I love it too," says Ronayne, quickly, addressing her pointedly in a friendly tone, although no introduction has been gone through between them.

  10. But it pointedly must be something or other, because when I broods about one I can't keep from brooding about the other.

  11. Now in the Protagoras, the permanent element is very pointedly distinguished from the transient, and is called Knowledge--the Science or Art of Calculation.

  12. Footnote 39: This distinction is pointedly noticed in the Euthyphron, p.

  13. And the mode of salvation for all time is pointedly marked out by the words, "the Lord was adding to the Church day by day such as should be saved.

  14. She was obviously a transitory visitor and not so much taking the opulence about her and particularly the great butler for granted as pointedly and persistently ignoring it in an effort to seem to take it for granted.

  15. They treated those laces then exactly as nice people would treat that gross man; a minimum of polite attention and all the rest pointedly directed away from him.

  16. All the same, I would like to try your voice," he said, turning pointedly away from her companion.

  17. The guide looked so pointedly at Ebony while he spoke that that sable comrade could not help noticing it.

  18. She looked pointedly at Rainiharo as she spoke, and the prime minister winced, for he had lately discovered that his own son was among the number of the "praying people.

  19. It was only after experience had drawn attention more pointedly to the evils resulting from faulty organization, and success had inspired legitimate confidence, that this subject became matter of much thought and some discussion.

  20. Sheridan contradicts himself yet more pointedly on this subject; and his discrepancies may have been the efficients of Murray's.

  21. But among their accented syllables, they all include words of one syllable, though most of them thereby pointedly contradict their own definitions of accent.

  22. In the very first words he spoke he alluded to the new ministry gazetted that morning, referring pointedly to the strong-handed man who had undertaken the task of reassuring peaceable citizens and making evil-doers tremble.

  23. And with a smile he pointedly concluded: "I don't know where that madman found the formula of his powder.

  24. The stranger looked at Huish with an air of faint surprise, and looked pointedly away again.

  25. Herrick was embarrassed; the silken brutality of their visitor made him blush; that he should be accepted as an equal, and the others thus pointedly ignored, pleased him in spite of himself, and then ran through his veins in a recoil of anger.

  26. It almost looked as if they pointedly refrained from coming into the town.

  27. To Roden Musgrave he took an intense dislike, which he exhibited in first pointedly wondering at finding a man of his age in that position; an impertinence which its recipient could afford utterly to ignore.

  28. Of this conversation he pointedly reminded Speed at the time, or just before the time, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

  29. That Kansas will form a slave constitution, and with it will ask to be admitted into the Union, I take to be already a settled question, and so settled by the very means you so pointedly condemn.

  30. I never said he was not good-looking,” pointedly answered Dr.

  31. She was terrified lest, to his humiliation, those old squires should pointedly ignore him.

  32. My dear, you need not remind me so pointedly that I’m forty-five and you need not smile in that fashion because you know that I’m really forty-seven.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pointedly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acutely; amply; briefly; consciously; conspicuously; curtly; deliberately; eminently; emphatically; exceptionally; expressly; exquisitely; extraordinarily; famously; generously; impressively; incredibly; intensely; intentionally; knowingly; magically; magnanimously; magnificently; markedly; marvelously; nobly; notably; particularly; peculiarly; pointedly; preeminently; profusely; prominently; purposely; remarkably; shortly; singularly; splendidly; summarily; surprisingly; uncommonly; unusually; voluntarily; wittingly; wonderfully