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Example sentences for "soundlessly"

Lexicographically close words:
soundest; soundeth; sounding; soundings; soundless; soundly; soundness; sounds; soune; soup
  1. Dim recollection Of fishes Soundlessly moving in heaven's other direction!

  2. He felt rather than saw her as she approached soundlessly on the dewy grass.

  3. Her hand went out as if to caress the white brow, but her fingers lifted only a fragrant lock of hair, and this she bent and kissed as soundlessly as the sunlight's vibration on the rug-strewn floor.

  4. Its lights were dim, many-colored globes afloat on warm darkness; it was as mysterious as the numerous slant-eyed yellow men who came and went so soundlessly in its shifting dusks.

  5. The Great Magician fumbled at the formidable portal, and, following a grating noise, it swung out soundlessly on well-oiled hinges.

  6. It rose blackly out of the far corners of the hut, creeping stealthily and soundlessly up the walls, as water rises in a closed lock.

  7. The cat, spying one of them as it swooped soundlessly hither and thither over the silvered grass-tops, crouched with flattened ears.

  8. For some way he went erect and in haste, though as soundlessly as the bear.

  9. Then he turned, crossed the room, soundlessly opened the door, and went out into the violet dark of the street.

  10. It would never do to soundlessly retreat.

  11. She soundlessly closed the door behind her, as if in so doing she were shutting up the whole matter in her mind for ever, as indeed she was, for she never referred to it again.

  12. An early fly or two--my strange, familiar friends--darted soundlessly beneath the ceiling.

  13. A stealthy-footed, moon-faced, fierce-eyed beast came soundlessly to the edge of the thicket and glared in searchingly.

  14. But he failed to notice that as he bent down a flat piece of wood had slipped from the pocket of his shirt and had fallen soundlessly into the soft green grass at the side of Abel Cumshaw's body.

  15. Bryce dropped quickly but soundlessly back into a prone position.

  16. He lifted the body to the narrow deck outside the rail, and, in a long dip, the waves carried it smoothly and soundlessly away.

  17. A sudden caution arrested him--the sound of his approach might precipitate a catastrophe, and he soundlessly felt his passage about the house to the portico.

  18. Together, almost as soundlessly as wraiths, they stole away, out through the office, out to the hallway, into the dim light of the arcade once more.

  19. Her shapely feet fell soundlessly in that strange and impalpable dust which thickly coated everything.

  20. Mrs. Foss's eyes found those of Leslie, who understood the words soundlessly framed, and excused herself from the table.

  21. Confidently, Mooney started down the steps toward the egg and the moving figures that flitted soundlessly around it.

  22. And the silvery dispatch-case sort of thing, the survival kit, dropped soundlessly to the snow beside Mooney.

  23. Harse spat soundlessly and turned his eyes where Mooney was pointing.

  24. Both guards bent over him, fingering the disk, talking soundlessly with their facile fingers.

  25. They went back to the fire and talked soundlessly to their companions, holding up the identification disk which had been ripped from Dirrul's neck hours before.

  26. Soundlessly the thin metal door slid into the wall and the little professor bounced into the room.

  27. As swiftly and as soundlessly as he had left the house he now returned to it.

  28. Moving off as briskly as if he were endeavouring to evade that subject, he slipped soundlessly away through the shrubbery and was gone before she could speak.

  29. Freeman still continued to run his hand soundlessly across the keys.

  30. Better take something for your nerves," Freeman said mildly, and ran one hand soundlessly over the keys of the piano.

  31. Freeman's fingers, once more running soundlessly over the keys, struck a faint note.

  32. Soundlessly the overhead metal ring began to whirl, gathering speed with every second.

  33. But there was room enough for Thorn to slide between the two men nearest him and roll soundlessly under the table.

  34. It fell soundlessly on the soft carpet, and rolled under a chair.

  35. A stillness had grown about the heart even of the patient mavis in the rowan beside the winding shadow-haunted pool, a few yards away from the spot where the child soundlessly danced.

  36. Three days thence, late on a hot afternoon scarce cooled by the breeze that moved soundlessly though steadily over the upland crags of Innisròn, a company of islanders was met at the little western haven betwixt Ardfeulan and Craig-Ruaidh.

  37. Surely it must be that, she thought, as soundlessly she approached him.

  38. It was in the late gloaming, as she had promised, that Sorcha stole soundlessly from the forest, and was in Alan's arms almost before he knew that the tryst was kept.

  39. Slowly and soundlessly he approached the bed.

  40. Only less beautiful than the sunset she seemed, this slender half-breed, who had come all unperceived behind us, treading soundlessly with her slim bare feet.

  41. She became on the spot indifferent to her usual fear of showing what in children was notoriously most offensive--presented to her companion, soundlessly but hideously, her wet distorted face.

  42. The door opened soundlessly behind Ihjel and he wheeled about, moving as only an athlete of Anvhar can move.

  43. So that as he sat there brooding, it was perhaps a little unfortunate that the daughter of a man whom he was beginning to regard as a forthright enemy should have chosen to come to him, tripping soundlessly over the moss.

  44. She looked her name, the Gull, a thing of exceeding grace and beauty, gliding soundlessly across a sun-shimmering sea.

  45. Slowly, soundlessly he got to his feet; approached the sheet-iron door; with every sense alert, listened.

  46. They approached it almost soundlessly from astern, so that the sleepy look-out on the fo'c'sle-head neither heard nor saw them.

  47. Carthew had all but reached the opposite edge of the pit between them when he let it go with a breathless grunt and it fell almost soundlessly into the void below.

  48. The inexplicable shape was flitting soundlessly toward him.

  49. The senator sat down beside his minion's desk, the fingertips of his left hand began soundlessly to drum.

  50. Morgan's round, heavy, florid face had perhaps lost a little of its usual color; the fingers of his left hand drummed soundlessly upon the glass top of his desk.


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