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Example sentences for "slowly and"

  • Slowly and unconsciously he learned to love her.

  • Summoning all his resolution, he passed it slowly and softly.

  • Nerving myself to the utmost, I ceased the stealthiness of my movements, and went forward, slowly and steadily.

  • Chinaman, getting up slowly and painfully, and displaying a couple of great tears running down his fat cheeks.

  • Yes, they come on slowly and surely," said Stan in a sombre tone.

  • Slowly and at last came the large burning tears.

  • At last Juan spoke, slowly and as if half bewildered.

  • I thank you for your tidings," said Juan, slowly and faintly.

  • He rose and walked towards the gate of the monastery grounds, slowly and in silence, Carlos accompanying him.

  • Slowly and lost in gloomy thought, John Heywood walked toward his lodgings.

  • Then it crawled to the wall, against which it slowly and painfully up-ended itself, and stood blinking round for the water-bag, which hung from the verandah rafters in a line with its shapeless red nose.

  • He took his fiddle from a convenient shelf, tuned it slowly and carefully, holding his pipe (in his mouth) well up and to one side, as if the fiddle were an inquisitive and restless baby.

  • But Uncle Oliver did not speak; he only continued to shake his head, slowly and profoundly.

  • Upon which, exactly as at a cue in a play, the door from the bedroom opened, slowly and quietly.

  • Slowly and clumsily, with constant interruptions and interminable mistakes, the first act dragged on, until Lucy appeared again to end it in soliloquy, with the confession of her assumed simplicity and the praise of her own cunning.

  • She spoke her last venomous words as slowly and distinctly as she had spoken all the rest.

  • Slowly and in silence the two walked on until they reached the southern limit of the houses, and entered on a little wilderness of shingle and withered grass--the desolate end of Aldborough, the lonely beginning of Slaughden.

  • He slowly and ill-humouredly complied, and took down an excellent piece of dark gray, which Ellen fell in love with at once; but she was again disappointed; it was fourteen shillings.

  • Slowly and fearfully, and with as much care as possible, she set step by step upon the slippery log.

  • Slowly and patiently, with painful care groping their way, they pushed on through the snow and the thick night.

  • He read it slowly and cautiously, so as to let each man fully understand it.

  • Slowly and distinctly he read the first paragraph, and then turned to Herndon with, "What do you think of that?

  • He then opened them, and read their contents, slowly and carefully.

  • Mechanically, he glanced down at his watch, lifting his wrist into his line of vision as slowly and ponderously as though it bore a great weight.

  • Slowly and gently, Kit and Astro circled lower and lower until the two jet boats were directly over the Deimos spaceport.

  • Illustration: Slowly and cautiously he began climbing] The young cadet moved away from the protection of the locker and started toward the space suit.

  • On September 3 Morshead and Wheeler left for the Upper Kharta Valley, intending to go slowly and to map and fill in the detail of the valley as they went along.

  • Heron and the coolies were to follow on slowly and were to take two days in reaching Tingri, but I was anxious to get back, having been away already longer than I intended.

  • The victory is yours, O my son, and so is the shield," he said, slowly and thoughtfully.

  • I will give her to you for wife," the monarch repeated, slowly and distinctly.

  • The paba humbled himself before the speaker, and said, slowly and tearfully, "The wise king is blinded by his hope.

  • Slowly and sorrowfully we regained the yawl after that brief and bitter experience, and a few strokes of the oars carried us to the side of the "Balaklava.

  • He played the melody over only once, slowly and as sympathetically as he could; then he rose and retired from the piano; and stood in the darkness, listening.

  • Sometimes," old George Bethune continued, slowly and thoughtfully, "I wonder whether I have done my best.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slowly and" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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