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Example sentences for "stupidly"

Lexicographically close words:
stupid; stupider; stupidest; stupidities; stupidity; stupified; stupifying; stupor; stuporous; stur
  1. I shall go by train in the morning,--calmly, complacently, stupidly by train.

  2. She began to run, but at the door of the hotel she stopped and waited till he came stupidly up.

  3. Selwyn wiped his forehead with his hand and gazed stupidly at the blood which covered it.

  4. Selwyn remained where he was, blinking stupidly into the rain-soaked night, as one who has been walking in his sleep and has waked at the edge of an abyss.

  5. The mother with tearful eyes kept on spreading the bed-clothes over the sick child, and the grey-headed grandfather stared stupidly in front of him.

  6. The youth and the woman gazed stupidly at the stranger and said nothing.

  7. All pale and frightened little Cain stood beside her, and gazed stupidly at the blood flowing from his sister's forehead.

  8. I am so stupidly honest that I did not dare to say nothing to them about it.

  9. Cibot stared stupidly at the sorceress, and could not answer.

  10. O child, I've been sleeping stupidly and you have not gathered a flower--" looking at the empty hands.

  11. We paddled about for an hour in the blistering sun, searching stupidly for what we knew we could never find; crocodiles remove traces of identity more swiftly than kites and crows.

  12. We stood looking at her and at one another stupidly until she turned her back and went to her own room on the floor above.

  13. Did you ever see anything more stupidly British?

  14. More and more oppressive grew the government; more and more stupidly brutal and reactionary in its dealings with the wide-spread popular unrest.

  15. Like an animal frenziedly rubbing its eyes to remove a cinder they stupidly rubbed their eyes, but the impression left by Lazarus was not to be blotted out, and death alone granted oblivion.

  16. The soldiers were dispersing the disciples and the latter again huddled together stupidly getting into the soldiers' way, and this continued until the soldiers were seized with a contemptuous wrath.

  17. I was standing there, blinking stupidly at the ruins.

  18. Paul stupidly watched him go, saw him reach the turning by the meat-slave stockade and break into a loping run.

  19. She looked back stupidly at Paul's shout, and Nisana ran to her, crying out in the old language.

  20. Paul's hand leaped stupidly for the charlesite ignition and checked itself.

  21. They put two harpoons and a spear beside the raised platform of snow in the igloo, after the father and older son were stupidly sleeping.

  22. The struggle and the falling snow partially wakened the father and son, but they were stupidly useless.

  23. Left with the book, Captain Finch poised it in his hand, looking rather stupidly at it for a few minutes; then tossed it to the mantelpiece, and went from the room.

  24. I sat down and stared stupidly before me, too overcome by the situation to be able even to think.

  25. He looked stupidly at his little daughter, then pulled aside the sheet which covered his wife.

  26. For a moment he stood stupidly gazing at her; then the mist lifted and through it he saw a great light.

  27. A wave of shyness bathed Odo to the forehead as their eyes met: he hung his head stupidly and turned away when she fetched the comb to dress his hair.

  28. He did not appear stupidly annoyed, but sorry for your disappointment, and told me that he had been from the first dissatisfied with it as a likeness, himself.

  29. Its long and delicate crest had been stupidly tied into a knot, and by the bruised condition of these feathers the specimen, if it still exists in any museum, may yet be identified.

  30. It was a little elf in blue indienne who jumped first and ran down the street, crying the news in a shrill voice, the others following, the fiddler gazing stupidly after them.

  31. For an instant the little French-Canadian policeman whom the shot had missed gazed stupidly down at her.

  32. Those panic-stricken, half-dazed wretches who rushed pell-mell into the streets either ran stupidly upon the uplifted weapons of the rangers or were shot down by squads advantageously posted to receive them.

  33. I had known that her children and husband were buried in an obscure quarter of Greenwood, but forgot that fact when I spoke, and stupidly made allusion to that cemetery.

  34. Those were the most stupidly stolid things on earth, or the most splendidly reckless, we couldn't tell which; we knew only that they were irritating enough to have made Job dance with rage, if he had had an automobile.

  35. He looked stupidly at the ten-mile and fifteen-mile strips, but did not dare step onto them.

  36. Without moving, Whitney stared stupidly at the two servants, and it was Henry who laid a trembling finger on the elevator button.

  37. His hearers stared stupidly at each other, and then at the butler.

  38. It was stupidly asserted, however, that if a man omitted the prescribed ceremonies or had unauthorised dreams about the gods, he would lose his battles in this world and go to hell in the other.

  39. Moderns generally define their country rather stupidly by its administrative frontiers; and yet an Austrian would have some difficulty in applying even this conventional criterion.


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