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Example sentences for "resignedly"

Lexicographically close words:
resign; resignation; resignations; resigne; resigned; resigneth; resigning; resigns; resilience; resiliency
  1. Neither nature nor training helped her to meet resignedly the cruel calamity which had struck at her in the bloom of womanhood and the prime of beauty.

  2. The nosegay was still in his hand; and he was resignedly making a present of it to one of the coachman's children.

  3. When a man has a nose an inch long, with the nostrils set perpendicularly, it is impossible to flatter it--you must either change it into a fancy nose, or resignedly acquiesce in it.

  4. How many potent, grave and reverent tongues discourse to the popular ear in these siren strains, and how obediently and resignedly this same weary popular ear listens!

  5. But the resignedly statuesque look was gone.

  6. Very well," said Allan resignedly from his cloud.

  7. We took adjoining rooms, and resignedly went down to tea.

  8. When I see him he is intently, though summarily, rapidly drawing, his head critically balanced and his eyebrows working, and when I don't see him it is because I have resignedly relinquished him.

  9. Here Monsieur Justin yawned again, and, returning to the garden, sat himself down in an arbor and resignedly went to sleep.

  10. Maddalena Lomi had met him in the street, and had looked resignedly away from him, as if she expected him to pass her.

  11. Where he goes when he leaves this place, I will go; what he suffers, I will suffer; if he is to die, I believe God will grant me the strength to die resignedly with him!

  12. Elsbeth prepared herself resignedly to face a storm of protest, if not a blank refusal.

  13. Jealousy could not die out in Louise, but it entered on a new phase--became passive, enduring resignedly inevitable pain.

  14. Resignedly Alwynne sat herself down on Clare's doorstep to wait until a movement within should be the signal to ring again.

  15. I closed my eyes to the dreary future that was before me, and tried, in the intervals of the heart-ache, to live resignedly in the passing hour.

  16. The few members of the population who still preserved the relics of their old energy emigrated, while the mass left behind resignedly witnessed the diminution of their commerce and the decay of their institutions.

  17. But before resignedly adopting extreme measures she tried her friends and in a joking sort of way got the men to give her all they had about them, even down to their coppers.

  18. When at length she went into the private room she noticed that Muffat was sitting resignedly on a narrow divan with pale face and twitching hands.

  19. Breakfast warmed over, I see," he murmured, gazing resignedly toward the trees.

  20. With her chin in her hands she resignedly watched him complete her bed of tiger skins.

  21. Ten minutes passed and Hugh resignedly lighted a cigarette, stepping to the sidewalk to smoke.

  22. Around, by lifting winds forgot, Resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters lie.

  23. We must accept it as resignedly as we can.

  24. Blanche threw herself back in her chair, and flung her handkerchief resignedly over her face.

  25. He returned resignedly to his little Scotch air.

  26. The town had now resignedly paid over the hundred thousand francs, and only two hundred thousand remained owing to the contractor.

  27. When she found that her companions would not help her, she resignedly made up her mind to take off her sabots, and pull down her stockings.

  28. Under the slanting roof sheltering the platform, a hundred yards or so in length, some shadowy forms went to and fro, resignedly waiting.

  29. You certainly will if you can," the Colonel resignedly remarked.

  30. Resignedly I got out, took her bags from the turtle and set them beside the road, opened the door.

  31. I got up resignedly and followed him to the managingeditor's office.

  32. Agapit drew back, and resignedly put the jelly on the table.

  33. Claude knew what she meant, and glanced resignedly from his homespun suit to her resolved face.

  34. He paused at that point, as he had paused Sundays without end, and the congregation, as if at a signal, seemed to settle back and make itself resignedly comfortable against the duty it faced.

  35. A man of less will would have yielded and become resignedly subject to the body which Nature had imposed upon him.

  36. But as neither had ever reached a decision without prefacing it by this mysterious conclave, Mrs. Archer and her son, having set forth their case, waited resignedly for the familiar phrase.

  37. I gazed at the crowd, dejected and disappointed, then resignedly found Jon.

  38. Although Corbin had evidently forgiven her defection on that memorable evening, he had not apparently got over the revelation of her giddy worldliness, and was resignedly apathetic and distrustful of her endeavors.

  39. George smiled, and resignedly helped himself to some wine.

  40. If it is your pleasure, when we next meet to think my niece quite well, I shall bow resignedly to the expression of your opinion.

  41. Looking at the people who hurried through the waiting rooms, thronged the ticket offices, or resignedly followed their luggage, he was not far from admiring himself.

  42. In his present mood he was amused at this infamous meal, fell back upon a thin wine which rasped his throat, and resignedly drank coffee which left a sediment of peat at the bottom of the cup.


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