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Example sentences for "submissively"

Lexicographically close words:
submersion; submiss; submission; submissions; submissive; submissiveness; submit; submits; submitt; submitted
  1. The orthodox Moslems--the Moslems are those who are submissively resigned to the Divine will--are wont to assert that every page of that book is indeed a conspicuous miracle.

  2. I submissively used whatever sedative remedies he prescribed; but what most of all contributed to my recovery was, that the horrible knocking was not heard any more, and that the intolerable double seemed to have forsaken me altogether.

  3. Be that as it may, I must make haste to cure thy distemper, whether real or imaginary, and thou must submissively follow all my prescriptions; for in the state in which thou now art, thy Donna Venus will never be pleased with thee.

  4. Fleda clasped her round the neck convulsively for an instant, kissed her as if a kiss could speak a whole heartful, and then turned submissively to Mr. Carleton, and let him lead her to the carriage.

  5. Have you soberly, and submissively commended your apprehensions to those congregations in London, that are not of your persuasion in the case in hand?

  6. Have you commended your apprehensions soberly and submissively to those you call Independents and Presbyters?

  7. I please myself by commending my apprehensions soberly, and submissively to others much above me.

  8. The trials of that voyage, told to illustrate the Christian spirit which submissively encountered them, were long repeated from father to son and from mother to daughter.

  9. They never were obeyed so submissively at home nor so dreaded and even respected abroad.

  10. Do you think that I would sit silently and submissively by and see him shoot down the old family watch-dog, work him up into bouillion, and eat his repast in the shadow of my "sorghum stack.

  11. Here they settled down submissively and appeared to be content with their existing condition.

  12. The former, chained together by their iron collars in numbers of ten to fifteen, were led away; the latter submissively awaited the punishment awarded.

  13. To the King and Queen all the members of the household looked submissively for guidance.

  14. My mother glances submissively at them, shuts the book, and lays it by as an arrear to be worked out when my other tasks are done.

  15. Presently, he proceeded as before: 'It only remains for me, to bear the knowledge of the unhappiness I have occasioned, as submissively as I can.

  16. Then I perceived that the disjointed mass of humanity moved as a spiral, in unison, throbbing like a vitalized stream, bearing me submissively on its surface.

  17. I submissively relied on my guide, and as stoical as he appeared to be, I moved onward to new scenes.

  18. Maslova rose and submissively waited to be dismissed.

  19. He looked at me submissively and said nothing.

  20. Martin, out of deference to his Elector, was submissively content, though, certainly, then and at all times he would much rather have gone courageously to the attack.

  21. And as from these primary sensations such composition speaks, so, unless correspondent ones listen promptly and submissively in the inner cell of the mind to whom it is addressed, the voice cannot be heard; its highest powers are wasted.

  22. Would we not have rendered their bodies back upon our guardian ocean which had borne them hither; or have insisted that their haughty weapons should submissively kiss the soil which they had polluted?

  23. S: And make yourself submissively gentle to them with compassion, and say: O my Lord!

  24. Y: We inflicted Punishment on them, but they humbled not themselves to their Lord, nor do they submissively entreat (Him)!

  25. Pavel would answer back: "Dearest mother, though you have not as yet paid any of my debts, I accept most submissively the name of spendthrift which you choose to bestow upon me, whereof I beg most sincerely to accept my assurance.

  26. He dare not settle it, in one way or the other; all he could do was to resolve to live as near to God as possible, commit his way unto Him, and submissively wait for the direction of Divine providence.

  27. My glad heart beats time to the laugh of the vales, And Colin's voice rings through the wood from the fold, The wood to the mountain submissively bends, Whose blue misty summit first glows with the sun; See!

  28. Bear well and submissively the hard thrust of this stepmother world, which God will not have to be yours.

  29. Bear well and submissively the hard cross of this step-mother world, that God will not have to be yours.

  30. I see, then, it is our best (let guiltiness plead what it listeth) that we have no mean under the covering of heaven, but to creep in lowly and submissively with our wants to Christ.

  31. He admits, however, that John was too favourably inclined to the mysticism of Joachim, and that he submissively retracted in the presence of the Cardinal and assembled Fathers.

  32. She accepted submissively and without repining the relations that had been established once for all between her son and herself.

  33. Jane walked submissively out of the door, leaving it open behind her.

  34. Mr. Baxter rose submissively and went upstairs to do as he was bid.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "submissively" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    delicately; easily; faithfully; gently; humbly; meekly; modestly; obediently; softly; tenderly; traditionally