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Example sentences for "sociably"

Lexicographically close words:
soche; socht; sociability; sociable; sociables; social; sociale; socialen; sociales; socialisation
  1. Come on," said Joel, a light dancing in his black eyes, and he stuck his little brown hand out more sociably yet.

  2. Everything is done so freely and sociably that even the stranger, despite thousands of years of restraint in civilization, merges into an at-one-ment known to no group in our world.

  3. Though the Indians are said to despise the Fijians, I saw representatives of the two races sitting sociably together upon the launch up the Rewa River, smoking and chatting quite without any signs of friction.

  4. All day we broiled sociably together and in the nights--when we anchored in the river--slept softly in the balmy night airs.

  5. In the patio and in and out of the open rooms some native razor-back hogs wandered at their will and off on one side, more exclusive, was a friendly peccary who would sidle up and grunt sociably in return for a little back scratching.

  6. Sociably we rode in this freight car up from the desert oasis of San José because this freight car constituted the whole of the train.

  7. Why not combine, make it big enough to hold half a dozen, save labor and warmth, and, withal, live sociably together?

  8. The scaup duck may be tamed so far as to remain sociably among the domestic ones, will eat bread soaked in water, oats, and barley; in short, all that is given to common ducks.

  9. Illustration: "Sunny Boy sat down sociably on an old soap box"] "In the subway.

  10. Sunny Boy sat down sociably on an old soap box.

  11. We fared in company, and though he had a blue- book in his lap and the open jaws of his bag threatened me with the white teeth of confused papers, we inevitably, we even at last sociably conversed.

  12. She says he drinks like a fish," she sociably continued, "and yet she allows that his mind's wonderfully clear.

  13. While Baucis was getting the supper, the travelers both began to talk very sociably with Philemon.

  14. One that has no good part in him to offend his company, or make him to be suspected a proud fellow; but is sociably a dunce, and sociably a drinker.

  15. When the snow has buried seed and berries, a flock of juncos, mingling sociably with the sparrows and chickadees about the kitchen door, will pick up scraps of food with an intimacy quite touching in a bird naturally rather shy.

  16. In a word, they were exceedingly friendly; often coming off to the brigantine, and sociably dining with the captain in the cabin; placing the salt between them and him.

  17. Mrs. Montague appeared to have forgotten all about their recent conversation, and chatted sociably about various topics for a while.

  18. And winding her arm about the slender waist of the fair seamstress, they went down stairs together, Miss McKenzie chatting away as sociably as if they had always been friends and equals.

  19. Contented I am, and contented I'll be, For what can this world more afford, Than a lass that will sociably sit on my knee, And a cellar as sociably stored.

  20. After the two had gazed sociably at each other for a few moments the Hermit bade Ringtail a cheery good-night and withdrew to his own cabin, calling to Pal, who had been arousing the echoes with his excited barking.

  21. The bolder ones even found a perch on his shoulders or head, chatting sociably or scolding at each other.

  22. So why should little Solomon have sat sociably cuddled down beside her?

  23. It had been a pleasant way to spend the time sociably together; and loons like society very much, if they can select their own friends and have their parties in a wilderness lake.

  24. They all mingled sociably together after lessons were over,--walked, drove in an Irish car, or played croquet and gardened as the spring advanced.

  25. People were beginning to talk sociably to their neighbours, and a mild hilarity reigned, when a violent concussion, followed by a sudden cessation of the paddles, caused a general rush from the table.

  26. They are at all times sociably disposed, being seen sometimes in small parties, and sometimes in large flocks.

  27. It is sociably disposed towards birds of its own kind and allied species, but utterly averse to any familiarity with man, insomuch that fowlers rarely come within shot of it.

  28. What his powers as a combatant may be I cannot say; great, it may be supposed, for no one is inclined to do him battle, and he is not sociably disposed even towards those of his own kind.

  29. Moved partly by the oppression of the feeling and partly by a desire for information he asked her sociably one day, in the act of purchase, why the gilt was generally off her gingerbread.

  30. The customer was satisfied at last, and Mr Murchison walked sociably to the door with him; it was the secretary of the local Oddfellows' Lodge, who had come in about a furnace.

  31. Charley turned to examine what was thus so sociably jogging on with him, when a most unexampled apparition presented itself to his view.

  32. She descended to the servants' regions again, and encountered Ellen, Lady Catheron's smart maid, sociably drinking tea with the housekeeper.

  33. Something on his mind," thinks the superintendent, and sits sociably down on a box beside him at once.

  34. She sits and looks sociably out of the opposite window at the bright, flying landscape, steeped in the amber glitter of the October afternoon sun.

  35. She can see Charley and Hammond smoking sociably together in the sunny distance.


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