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Example sentences for "querulously"

Lexicographically close words:
querir; querist; quern; querns; querulous; querulousness; query; querying; ques; quest
  1. Calves were querulously calling for their milk, and little turkeys, lost in a tangle of grass, were piping plaintively.

  2. He came querulously to Paul that night--looking in with a scared face, and with glances over his shoulder, as though in fear of pursuit.

  3. Perhaps, worst of all, Patience asking questions--demanding querulously to know where she had been; perhaps speaking of Jimmy.

  4. He branched off into a little path which ran like a white thread across the field, grumbling querulously to the black-and-tan foxhound that ambled at his heels.

  5. For weeks Cynthia's eyes had been red and swollen, and he commented querulously upon them, for they made her homelier than usual.

  6. As the Twig is Bent It was two weeks after this that Fletcher, looking up from his coffee and cakes one morning, demanded querulously "Whar's Will, Saidie?

  7. I am glad of that," she says, looking querulously over her spectacles, as she twitches her chin, and increases the velocity of her rocking.

  8. Mrs. Swiggs looks querulously through her spectacles and says, "Do tell me where I am?

  9. A voice called something querulously down the stairs.

  10. It was eerie enough work, for the seabirds clanged around us, yammering and chunnering querulously among themselves on the main cliffs at the farther side of the isle.

  11. The overworked clerk was busy and querulously curt.

  12. Or so the eye of a prospector wanders querulously over staked and established claims on the mountainside, and seeks the virgin land beyond; unless, indeed, the prospector be dishonest.

  13. I've just been reading Ham's diary," she querulously announced.

  14. I don't get her at all, Mr. Smitherton," he querulously complained.

  15. She wanted neither water nor anything else, were all the thanks Lionel received, querulously spoken.

  16. He seemed to know the moment she slipped noiselessly away, turning convulsively, stretching out his arm, querulously summoning her back.


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